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Billie-Jade

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Billie-Jade’s Notes & Highlights

Beloved by Toni Morrison

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The water sucked and swallowed itself beneath them. There was nothing to disturb them at their work. So they did it appropriately and well.

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Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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White Teeth

by Zadie Smith

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Billie-Jade’s Quotes

“For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality”
― Ryohgo Narita

tags: durarara, erika, fiction

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“Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset, and I'm limp, by God. Anything. Peter Pan. Even before the curtain goes up at Peter Pan I'm a goddamn puddle of tears.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

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“Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

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“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.”
― Walter Tevis, Mockingbird

tags: literacy, reading

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“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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