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Book cover for Her Body and Other Parties

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

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“I hate coffee,” she says. “What about—” “I hate that, too.”

The Metamorphoses Of Ovid

by Ovid

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“I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of Him getting the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now, there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

tags: a-raisin-in-the-sun, faith, god, lorraine-hansberry, religion

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“When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: adam, gansey, power, raven-boys

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“…I see that something’s are hard to do, but that you can’t live with yourself if you don’t do them. I see that the best way to help myself is to help the people I care about. The rest will sort itself out. It has to, right?”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict

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“Shall I tell you what I’m thinking, Mrs. Ferrier?” “Heavens no, Nicholas! That would take hours, and we have only moments.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict

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“In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw the books anew, from without rather than from within, and was reminded of how beautiful they were simply as objects. The geometrical wonder of them all, each book on its own and all the books together, row upon row, the infinite patterns and possibilities they presented. They were truly lovely.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict

tags: books

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