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Walk the Blue Fields

by Claire Keegan

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Polly’s Quotes

“Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?”
― Max Porter, Lanny

tags: abstract, abstract-thinking, hope, idea, patience

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“So long, crumb-bum.”
― J. D. Salinger

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“How many yous have you been?
How many,
Lined up inside,
Each killing the last?”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

tags: configurations-of-self, persona, personality, self

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“Olanna felt the slow sadness of missing a person who was still there.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

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“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:
Are my trousers long enough?
Is my veil in place?
Can my make-up be seen?
Are they going to whip me?

No longer asks herself:
Where is my freedom of thought?
Where is my freedom of speech?
My life, is it liveable?
What's going on in the political prisons?”
― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

tags: freedom, opression

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