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manda
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"Loving how this book is simultaneously fantastical and yet grounded in reality. It's like listening to a grandfather tell tales of what was. In amongst the facts, you're also getting a fairytale. It's a grand soap opera so far, and while some characters get short shrift, I'm enjoying the journey" — Oct 15, 2014 05:39PM
"Loving how this book is simultaneously fantastical and yet grounded in reality. It's like listening to a grandfather tell tales of what was. In amongst the facts, you're also getting a fairytale. It's a grand soap opera so far, and while some characters get short shrift, I'm enjoying the journey" — Oct 15, 2014 05:39PM
manda
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"If I could classify a book as performance art, this would be it. My brain is in a constant state of anxiety, constantly waiting for the next surprise. I'm in love and in hate. It's a constant emotional reaction. I simultaneously want to beat the book with a lead pipe and snuggle up next to it and comfort it. This isn't prose, it's poetry with a narrative. I'm in love." — Jan 16, 2016 05:28PM
"If I could classify a book as performance art, this would be it. My brain is in a constant state of anxiety, constantly waiting for the next surprise. I'm in love and in hate. It's a constant emotional reaction. I simultaneously want to beat the book with a lead pipe and snuggle up next to it and comfort it. This isn't prose, it's poetry with a narrative. I'm in love." — Jan 16, 2016 05:28PM
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― How Reading Changed My Life
― How Reading Changed My Life
“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
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“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
― Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
― Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
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