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Turn Off the Light

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Diana’s Quotes

“I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

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“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: consciousness, dreams, imagination, mind, reading, reality

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“If you want things to change, you have to stop waiting for someone else to make the first move.”
― Karen White, Flight Patterns

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“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the window of her eyes and this is very frightening.”
― Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love

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“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.”
― Oliver Herford

tags: bird, dark, december, magical, remember, september, sing, spring

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