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I love how books are not really just books at all, but doorways. They are portals into places I’ve never been and people I’ll never be, and in them I have lived a thousand lives and seen a thousand different worlds.
“Maybe this is what books do, she thinks, whether stories real or imagined or poems compiled in one place for people to flick through in search of what they need. They offer something universal but allow you to find your own meaning among the words. They are for everyone and yet they are for you too.”
― This Book Made Me Think of You
― This Book Made Me Think of You
“Like any good, emotionally stunted writer, I've found linguistic loopholes to express my emotions while still preserving the labyrinthine collection of walls around my heart.”
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
“People smile at kids when they make mistakes and as they figure out their way in the world but forget that even as adults, there's still no road map and everyone's bumbling along as best they can. Maybe if grown-ups could see the kids they once were -- the kids who were still inside -- then everyone would be a little better for it.”
― The Incredible Kindness of Paper
― The Incredible Kindness of Paper
“I know that memories alter the more you revisit them, and I want mine to re main pristine. I want to hold that memory still, as if it were stuck in a snow globe, protected and unchanged even as the world swirls around it.”
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
“Dreams are elusive, and always pulling at you. They seem always to be right around the corner. But you never really know what you're chasing, until you catch it. If it turns out to be real magic, the chase will have been worth it.”
― Dream Chasing: My Four Decades of Success and Failure with Walt Disney Imagineering
― Dream Chasing: My Four Decades of Success and Failure with Walt Disney Imagineering
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