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I love bookstores for many reasons but revere both the idea and the practice of public libraries. To me, they embody the civic-scale practice of a gift economy and the notion of common property. Libraries are models of gift economies, ...more
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Dolly Alderton
“...relationships are challenging and boring and annoying, and that’s unavoidable. You have to work through it, you can’t just opt out of the whole thing”
Dolly Alderton, Good Material

Taylor Jenkins Reid
“Happiness is so hard to come by. I don't understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

Sarah Beth Durst
“It wasn't that she didn't like people. It was that she liked books more. They didn't fuss or judge or mock or reject.They invited you in, fluffed up the pillows on the couch, offered you tea and toast, and shared their hearts with no expectation that you'd do anything more than absorb what they had to give.”
Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

T.J. Klune
“It’s hard.” “What is?” “Being alive.” “It is,” Arthur agreed. “But perhaps that’s the point: the trials and tribulations of life weigh heavily upon us, but we find people to help lighten the load.”
T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Dolly Alderton
“It’s all so random and unfair – the people we want to be with don’t want to be with us and the people who want to be with us are not the people we want to be with.”
Dolly Alderton, Good Material

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