The Eights
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It is curiosity that is the key to academic success, Miss Greenwood, natural raw curiosity, and a fervent desire to learn.
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
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“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
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“books gave me an unflinching sense of stability and groundedness. That because words survived, somehow I would too.”
― The Lost Bookshop
― The Lost Bookshop
“is there a better time than the present?”
― The Lost Bookshop
― The Lost Bookshop
“She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. "A few hundred," she said.
"How do you have the time?" he asked, gobsmacked.
She narrowed her eyes and considered the array of potential answers in front of her. Because I don't spend hours flipping through cable complaining there's nothing on? Because my entire Sunday is not eaten up with pre-game, in-game, and post-game talking heads? Because I do not spend every night drinking overpriced beer and engaging in dick-swinging contests with the other financirati? Because when I am waiting in line, at the gym, on the train, eating lunch, I am not complaining about the wait/staring into space/admiring myself in reflective surfaces? I am reading!
"I don't know," she said, shrugging.”
― The Weird Sisters
"How do you have the time?" he asked, gobsmacked.
She narrowed her eyes and considered the array of potential answers in front of her. Because I don't spend hours flipping through cable complaining there's nothing on? Because my entire Sunday is not eaten up with pre-game, in-game, and post-game talking heads? Because I do not spend every night drinking overpriced beer and engaging in dick-swinging contests with the other financirati? Because when I am waiting in line, at the gym, on the train, eating lunch, I am not complaining about the wait/staring into space/admiring myself in reflective surfaces? I am reading!
"I don't know," she said, shrugging.”
― The Weird Sisters
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