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“There is no point in delaying crying. Sadness is like having a vicious alligator around. You can ignore it for only so long before it begins devouring things and you have to pay attention.”
― Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
― Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?

“And maybe I will live a happier, wilder, more colourful and unpredictable life if I can finally abandon the debilitating and brutal pursuit of perfection. If I can learn to love butterflies from afar, and watch them fly away.”
― The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up; A Memoir
― The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up; A Memoir

“You’re probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone’s better at math than I am, but it’s okay, I’m fine with it. See, I excel at other, more important things—guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few. By the way, it's apparently true that you'll never use it in the real world. Math, I mean.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places

“People don't want reasons to do what they'd like to. They want excuses.”
― Theatre
― Theatre

“The alphabet is the greatest invention of humankind, and even has a spark of the divine: it gave us the written word, which gave us the means to communicate with both the past and the future.”
― Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
― Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

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Lasītāji no Latvijas pievienojieties! Interesanti būtu uzzināt, cik daudz mūsu šeit ir.

This group explores Russian literature with an emphasis on 19th/20th century authors.

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