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“Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too.”
― The Sun Is Also a Star
― The Sun Is Also a Star
“We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.”
― The Sun Is Also a Star
― The Sun Is Also a Star
“It was in that moment that I realized something about human beings: We always care. Even when we don't care, or don't want to care, or we've been broken beyond the capability of caring...
We always do. It's our ultimate infallibility.”
― Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe
We always do. It's our ultimate infallibility.”
― Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe
“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“Sometimes, I used to sit under the sky, on a clear night, and gaze at the stars, saying, in my croaky voice: “Lord, if you’re up there somewhere, and you aren’t too busy, come and say a few words to me, because I’m very lonely and it would make me so happy.” Nothing happened. So I reckon that humanity— which I wonder whether I belong to —really had a very vivid imagination.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
Ellen’s 2025 Year in Books
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197 books
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