“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“When a bookmark tumbles out of an old book pristine and unwrinkled, it is like a gasp of breath from another century.”
― Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
― Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
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