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“All children, except one, grow up.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“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
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“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
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— 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
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— 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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