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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

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The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you.

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Henry’s Quotes

“Then he turned it the third time, and the boy's ass fell off.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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“But I'll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of American literature: life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly, like our marriage did, Pat. And literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for people to endure nobly.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

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“Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

tags: leadership, power

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“I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.”
― Avi Steinberg, Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

tags: autobiography, reading

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“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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