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“All wars are sacred,” he said. “To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no
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“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
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“Shades slithered, doors boomed, keys rattled their bones in locks, people fled with hordes of torn newspaper mice nibbling their heels.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.”
― The Road
― The Road
Live, Laugh, and Love – with Cholera!
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A reading group devoted to Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, one chapter at a time. Love in the Time of Cholera is divided into 6 ...more
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