Amelie

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Amelie’s Quotes

“If you’re going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

tags: act, defiance

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“..the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

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“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
― Jean Luc Godard

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“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: greed, wisdom

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Addicted to YA — 66329 members — last activity 9 hours, 45 min ago
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put bac ...more

Around the World in 80 Books — 32020 members — last activity 3 hours, 55 min ago
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more

The History Book Club — 26601 members — last activity 17 hours, 47 min ago
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more