“On his departure, he glanced swiftly back as he passed the furtive gaze of the gloved footmen.He was swept away in the momentum of shimmering glass....I had seen how the world turned, and I was beginning to feel my own power”
― Johari's Window
― Johari's Window
“The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.”
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“The joy of reading is in discovery; a good writer creates, "gaps, spaces, and absences," in a richly layered text. He/she creates a desire in the reader to strive for meaning. Paradoxically, the writer guides the reader, but allows them some flexibility to recreate the text, thereby putting their own unique interpretation on what they have read.”
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“I want to sling a stone, a small rock into a pool, see it ripple. I want to shake a tree, create a small storm..”
― Johari's Window
― Johari's Window
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