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“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
― Percival Everett, James

“How were you supposed to know not to mention necrophilia at Christmas dinner?”
― Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

“What a gift it is, to be able to guide someone to a point and then let them finish it themself. To give someone all the knowledge you have and then pray they use it right.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water