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“When life reaches out with a moment like this, it's a sin if you don't reach back.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
“Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.”
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
“Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.”
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
“Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.”
― Fangirl
― Fangirl
“Did she look at us that first week and see past the glossed hair and the shiny legs, our glittered brow bones and girl bravado? See past all that to everything beneath, all our miseries, the way we all hated ourselves but much more everyone else? Could she see past all of that to something else, something quivering and real, something poised to be transformed, turned out, made? See that she could make us, stick her hands in our glitter-gritted insides and build us into magnificent teen gladiators?”
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Ask Melina Marchetta - Tuesday, April 30th!
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Join us on Tuesday, April 30th for a special discussion with novelist Melina Marchetta! Melina will be discussing her newest book Quintana of Charyn ( ...more
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