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Kaye’s Quotes

“I looked inside my typewriter. There's a city in there. Black and grey columns and no inhabitants.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

tags: city-in-writing, columns, mr-fox, typewriter

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“We build the stories in our heads. We take words, and we give them power, and we look out through other eyes, and we see, and experience, what they see. I wonder, Are fictions safe places? And then I ask myself, Should they be safe places?”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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“A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

tags: books, library, night, romance

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“If you're about to fall to the ground like a frail creature in need of smelling salts, you owe it to yourself to at least say something vicious beforehand.”
― Helen Oyeyemi

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“You are twenty. You are not dead, although you were dead. The girl who died. And was resurrected. Children. Witches. Magic. Symbols. Remember the illogic of the fantasy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: sylvia-plath

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ARC Swap — 384 members — last activity Jan 24, 2018 09:25AM
Are you a book blogger that has an ARC that you're not sure what to do with it? How about swapping it with another blogger? ...more

Young Adult Book Reading Challenges — 8292 members — last activity Mar 12, 2026 03:54PM
Welcome to the Young Adult Book Reading Challenges! Welcome everyone who is interested in YA books! We have amazing reading challenges going on all t ...more

Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge — 26897 members — last activity 10 hours, 5 min ago
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more

Ask Maggie Stiefvater - Special One-Day-Only Group! — 142 members — last activity Dec 21, 2011 11:31PM
Join bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater for a discussion about her new book Forever and her popular series The Wolves of Mercy Falls! Maggie will be ...more

YA Book Club Not Just For Teens! — 571 members — last activity Nov 29, 2025 06:40PM
A book club for older teens and adults who love to read and discuss YA books. We love series! Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Paranormal, Comedy, we love them ...more

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