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Mary Poppins
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and while he was there he sat on a large chair in front of a large desk and made money. All day long he worked, cutting out pennies and shillings and half-crowns and threepenny-bits.
“How often in life he has found himself a frustrated observer of apparently impenetrable systems, watching other people participate effortlessly in structures he can find no way to enter or even understand. So often that it’s practically baseline, just normal existence for him. And this is not only due to the irrational nature of other people, and the consequent irrationality of the rules and processes they devise; it’s due to Ivan himself, his fundamental unsuitedness to life. He knows this. He feels himself to have been formed, somehow, with something other than life in mind.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can’t be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn’t their fault and it’s not yours either. You just needed something they didn’t have in them to give you.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“He didn't know what the words meant, but he knew what they sounded like: it was the sound of sadness.”
― Velvet Was the Night
― Velvet Was the Night
“But the girl has something the others do not: a questionable amount of soul.
And a questionable amount of soul is a dangerous things. It makes people unpredictable, it can send them out in the darkness to seek things that others would never dare. It can keep the flame burning, long after it was supposed to go out.”
― The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
And a questionable amount of soul is a dangerous things. It makes people unpredictable, it can send them out in the darkness to seek things that others would never dare. It can keep the flame burning, long after it was supposed to go out.”
― The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
Read to Grow Lovestead Book Club
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This group focuses on reading books that will help us grow as humans. Books can be both fiction and nonfiction. we will read one book a month.
Our Shared Shelf
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
Cedar Falls Public Library
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Join the Cedar Falls Public Library's community of readers as we explore the love of reading. ...more
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Ask Lisa Gardner and Tess Gerritsen
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Lisa Gardner and Tess Gerritsen will be answering questions from readers in this special group on Friday, January 9th. They'll be discussing Lisa's ...more
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