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Louise

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Honeybees and Distant Thunder

by Riku Onda

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A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

by Sangu Mandanna (Goodreads Author)

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Louise’s Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: imperfect, love

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“Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.”
― Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y

tags: books, cybernetics, ideas, images, thoughts

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“proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so”
― Charlie Brooker

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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