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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

by Therese Anne Fowler (Goodreads Author)

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“all the numbers merged into one outraged thought: How dare they? Our bodies belonged to us. Poor, disabled, it didn’t matter. These were our bodies, and we had the right to decide what to do with them. It was as if they were just taking our bodies from us, as if we didn’t even belong to ourselves.”
― Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand

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“Sam had picked the song for both of us. He surely wouldn’t want me to hold back from living like I had been for so long. And the truth was: I was here and I didn’t want to miss a thing, either.”
― Tracy Dobmeier, Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay

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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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