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  • #1
    “...
    But even if the minute hand, too quickly
    squeezes the wick between its fingertips,
    Joy
    still looks like honey and sunshine in their eyes,
    helping old mum and dad out of the car,
    sagging like candle wax

    as life, in a breeze, is gone already
    whisking the leaves on their tombstone,
    engraved,
    no wind can ever erase them.”
    Ximena Escobar, The Secret Beautiful

  • #2
    Franz Kafka
    “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #3
    Martha Wells
    “I guess you can’t tell a story from the point of view of something that you don’t think has a point of view.”
    Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

  • #4
    Martha Wells
    “Fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.”
    Martha Wells, Artificial Condition
    tags: fear

  • #5
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #6
    Holly Black
    “Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #7
    “I asked him for it.
    For the blood, for the rust,
    for the sin.
    I didn’t want the pearls other girls talked about,
    or the fine marble of palaces,
    or even the roses in the mouth of servants.
    I wanted pomegranates—
    I wanted darkness,
    I wanted him.
    So I grabbed my king and ran away
    to a land of death,
    where I reigned and people whispered
    that I’d been dragged.
    I’ll tell you I’ve changed. I’ll tell you,
    the red on my lips isn’t wine.
    I hope you’ve heard of horns,
    but that isn’t half of it. Out of an entire kingdom
    he kneels only to me,
    calls me Queen, calls me Mercy.
    Mama, Mama, I hope you get this.
    Know the bed is warm and our hearts are cold,
    know never have I been better
    than when I am here.
    Do not send flowers,
    we’ll throw them in the river.
    ‘Flowers are for the dead’, ‘least that’s what
    the mortals say.
    I’ll come back when he bores me,
    but Mama,
    not today.”
    Daniella Michalleni

  • #8
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Shame holds more value than coin ever can.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #9
    “The bottom line is this: environmental toxins are all around us, and they stimulate the production of free radicals, which can cause axidative damage to any kind of cell, be it muscle, nerve, liver, kidney,, heart, brain, and so on, and cause autoimmune disease.”
    Stephen B. Edelson, M. D.

  • #10
    “Everyone is a little bit haunted. There are ghosts within us all, truths we keep bouncing away like bubbles we are afraid to let settle inside because we’re afraid they will burst and poison us with the reality we can’t face or with which we can’t live.”
    V.C. Andrews, Willow

  • #11
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “Impossible to be alone inside something living & listening. ”
    Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

  • #12
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “The Creator Speaks with Dreams & Reality.”
    Matthew Edward Hall

  • #13
    “Thousands of year ago, a Viking warrior was laid to rest in a grave adorned with a sword, an axe, a spear, armor piercing arrows, a battle knife, two shields, and two horses, all suggestive of a professional, high-ranking commander. When the grave was discovered in the late nineteenth century, experts agreed this must be the burial site of an esteemed MALE warrior. It wasn't until the 1970s that some scientists looked more closely at the remains and asked: Could these small, gracile bones be the remains of a woman?
    The greater scientific community balked; the very idea of a female warrior was too ridiculous to entertain. And yet, fifty years later, a DNA analysis of the Viking skeleton by Stockholm Unversity osteologist Anna Kjellstrom conclusively proved it accurate. It only took so long, and required so much, because the bones told a different story than the medical institions and experts of the 1800s did. The skeleton was clearly female - but the men saw what they wished to see, what they'd been taught to see.”
    Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

  • #14
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “heal the roots, to see the tree grow vibrant.”
    Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

  • #15
    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    Daniel Pennac

  • #16
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “The tree of which we are branches on, makes choices yesterday, by the choices we make today.”
    Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine



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