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“Why do books attract us the way people do? Why are we drawn to covers like we are to a look, a voice that seems familiar, heard before, a voice that diverts us from our path, makes us look up, attracts our attention, and could change the course of our life.”

“No one ever says that you can die from having been too fed up, too often.”

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I’m 100% in already!
“I have always been susceptible to my mother’s minor needs and exigencies. I began many a battle feeling indomitable and ended up prostrate and vanquished, my mother’s flag fluttering, its pole staked right through my heart. I knew of no one else who could use sighs as a lethal weapon.”

“I don’t agree or disagree. I learned that a long time ago. That my opinion doesn’t really matter. And the less I say, the more pleasant the memory of me today will be.”

And if some people, even more marginalized than the others, have found their place of reassembling in a circle of tents, if this has helped them become once again, a human body whole, I cannot deny them this.

“… focussing on books from a particular place or people – requires a willingness to clear mental space. The idea is contained within dawisijigem, which is an Ojibwe word that translates into English as clear space, like clearing off a table before a meal, or moving books off my desk or side tables to make room for new piles.”

She finds a receipt and pen in her purse;a small part of her wonders if years from now,this old receipt will fossilize and be retrieved by an archeologist.They would dust off the clay with their delicate little brush,and they would gesture to their colleagues to come and see,come bear witness to the past.Look,they would say. There was once a woman and she sat in the pub and these are the things she wrote of her life.

Everyone is smoking, especially the non-smokers. It’s too hot to think about ageing or illness or death, and it’s too hot, too, to
wear a shirt or drink a glass of water or have dinner or go to bed or show up to work on time or show up to work at all. Everyone is downing their drink, getting another, downing their drink, getting another. Everyone is waiting for something to happen.”