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Tolkien’s central field of study was, naturally, Old and Middle English, roughly speaking the forms of English which date from 700 AD to 1100 (Old) and 1100 to 1500 (Middle) – Old English is often called ‘Anglo-Saxon’, as in the title of ...more
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Gabrielle Zevin
“Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin
“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
We are not quite novels.

The analogy he is looking for is almost there.
We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.
In the end, we are collected works.
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin
“...she doesn't want to become the kind of person who thinks that good news can only come from calls one was already expecting and callers one already knows”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin
“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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