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Jeffrey Howard
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“Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules
“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules
“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
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“All children, except one, grow up.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules
This Reading Group Will Happen
— 3 members
— last activity May 03, 2015 08:51PM
Friends getting together to read, feed our minds, enlarge our hearts, and expand our horizons--and to share our ridiculous thoughts about what we read ...more
Dystopian Reading List
— 14 members
— last activity Nov 23, 2014 04:38PM
Basically, I have for some time now had the craving to explore in a more systematic manner the dystopian genre. In an attempt to capture with due just ...more
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