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If she must grow roots, she would rather be left to flourish wild instead of pruned, would rather stand alone, allowed to grow beneath the open sky. Better that than firewood, cut down just to burn in someone else’s hearth.
“It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."
[The Autumnal]”
― The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
[The Autumnal]”
― The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
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“I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”
― The Angel's Game
― The Angel's Game
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