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“Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“The rook is my favourite piece,’ she said. ‘It’s the one that you think you don’t have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eye on the queen, and the knights, and the bishop, because they are the sneaky ones. But it’s the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“To be human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.’ She didn’t correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn’t tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
Mrs C Walker’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mrs C Walker’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
786 books
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25 friends
231 books
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8 friends
124 books
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3 friends
43 books
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1 friend
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