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“When I was a girl with a book in my hand I could go to a place so deep no one could follow.”

— Now I Glance Up The First Time They Call My Name

DNF at 30%

“He might be called the eternal amateur—a lover of things, of people, of sheer loving, a man for whom the days are too short, and the future fabulous with discoverable joys. And for all this most people will not like him—he will not compromise for less than God’s own share of the world while they have settled for less than Man’s.”

“Bitterness can be corrosive; it can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.”

"...a book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one."

"And isn't that what we all want deep down? To drop the cynicism and defensiveness, to give up the mathematics of hatred, to melt the hardness of another's heart and in the process melt our own walls too?"