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"I am not sure when I will continue reading it. It is not an easy read. It is hard to relate to characters and to the setting." — Dec 02, 2017 09:04AM
"I am not sure when I will continue reading it. It is not an easy read. It is hard to relate to characters and to the setting." — Dec 02, 2017 09:04AM
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"I loved it very much at first but now am realizing that it is a book for kids. If not for that, I would have liked it better. Also the plot seems to be really stuck right now. It better move and fast." — Dec 02, 2017 09:03AM
"I loved it very much at first but now am realizing that it is a book for kids. If not for that, I would have liked it better. Also the plot seems to be really stuck right now. It better move and fast." — Dec 02, 2017 09:03AM
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"I am not sure it is a biography... rambling and uninformative so far... where was he born, what was his family and upbringing like?" — Feb 02, 2018 09:02PM
"I am not sure it is a biography... rambling and uninformative so far... where was he born, what was his family and upbringing like?" — Feb 02, 2018 09:02PM
Blue Boy
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Not that the ignorant cow would know who Edvard Munch is.)
This sentence with the word “cow” in it spoken about a teacher was a turn-off. Too much bitterness in this book.
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Kathy
“Everyone was in a hurry, which didn’t make any sense, considering food was simple to get, no one had to make a fire to keep warm, and water flowed through the buildings, ready wherever you needed it.”
― True Places
― True Places
“God is a fact to them. God is defined as the basic laws of the universe or cosmos. God is everything that existed the instant before the Big Bang took place. They contend that all humans believe in God, too. If you believe you are real and alive, then by default you must believe that the universe and everything around you is real, therefore you believe in God.”
― Deep Crossing
― Deep Crossing
“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
―
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
―
“The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
― A Girl I Knew
― A Girl I Knew
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