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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“—This, she said, is a book. It is one of our ways of codifying and keeping human knowledge. When it cannot be kept in a person’s head, this is one method of keeping it safe. It is a good way of moving ideas from one head to another, as it only requires one person’s time to do it, and not two.”
― Jesse Ball, A Cure for Suicide

“We will return to them. For now, he’s the one we can’t look away from. He is the shining one.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“Now I know for sure the soul is an evanescent thing and the body is its temporary container, because I saw it. I saw the body with the soul in it, I saw the body with the soul leaving, and I saw the body with the soul gone.”
― Elizabeth Alexander, The Light of the World