Katie

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Katie is Currently Reading

Katie is currently reading

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

by Tamim Ansary (Goodreads Author)

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Katie’s Quotes

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: man, men, woman, women

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“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
― Terry Pratchett

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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

tags: poetry, power-of-words

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