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This book improves upon rereading, because the misunderstandings and subtle notes and cues make much more sense. I also HIGHLY recommend supplementing your reading by watching Emma Approved on YouTube; utter delight!
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“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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“It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. In a week from now, she would have no choices.”
― The Sleeper and the Spindle
― The Sleeper and the Spindle
“But despite this, there are some who consider this way of seeing, which is to say, focusing intently on the most minor details, like dust on the desk or fly shit on a painting, as the only way to arrive at the truth and definitive proof of its existence. There are even art historians who make these same claims. All right, they don’t exactly claim to notice fly shit on a painting, but they do make a point of focusing on the least significant details, not the most significant ones, in order to determine, for example, whether a painting is an original or a copy. According to them, when art forgers imitate a painting, they pay attention to major, significant details, like the roundness of the subject’s face or the position of the body, and these they reproduce precisely. However, they rarely pay attention to little details like earlobes or fingernails or toenails, which is why they ultimately fail to perfectly replicate the painting.”
― Minor Detail
― Minor Detail
“Words compress impressions into facts cold as frozen quarters. One single word-like EMERGENCY, or love- can revise a whole night. A whole life.”
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“The best use of family was having it in front of other people.”
― Among the Ten Thousand Things
― Among the Ten Thousand Things
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