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“Did you see that guy in the back, from the radio station?’
His smile is a jar full of fireflies.
‘Crazy Girl,’ he says.
‘All I saw was you.”
― Wild Awake
His smile is a jar full of fireflies.
‘Crazy Girl,’ he says.
‘All I saw was you.”
― Wild Awake
“From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the old ones. Her own small bedroom now became her reading-room and there she would sit and read most afternoons, often with a mug of hot chocolate beside her. She was not quite tall enough to reach things around in the kitchen, but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted. Mostly it was hot chocolate she made, warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it. Occasionally she made Bovril or Ovaltine. It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She traveled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“A librarian can’t live by books alone, and I wouldn’t eat them if I could. Feel too much like cannibalism.”
― Ashfall
― Ashfall
“Green hills wash sunlight blue.”
― Ashfall
― Ashfall
“That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.”
― Where'd You Go, Bernadette
― Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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