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Julian Barnes
“A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.”
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

Roxane Gay
“In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.”
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

Michael Ondaatje
“Don’t we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.”
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
tags: love

Roxane Gay
“We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we’ll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.”
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

Fredrik Backman
“Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury. Some need its constant presence to even be aware of its antithesis. Others become so preoccupied with it that they go into the waiting room long before it has announced its arrival. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone.”
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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267 books | 19 friends

Derek Park
39 books | 24 friends

Kevin Choy
15 books | 23 friends

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Julie
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Nicole
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