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“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
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“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
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“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― The Truth About Forever
― The Truth About Forever
“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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