Shannon

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Shannon is Currently Reading

Shannon is currently reading

You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times

by Saeed Teebi

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Shannon’s Quotes

“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

tags: change, death, forever, life, love, relationships

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“This was the way it was going to be then, this road she was going to have to walk. She would always be thinking of him so that he would be beside her even when he wasn't there, making her joyous or miserable, but always, always controlling the colour of her days.”
― Jane Urquhart , The Stone Carvers

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“I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

tags: language, life, words

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“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

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“I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books. The book itself doesn’t matter. It’s that he found another world in it.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

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