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“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“There's a term you don't hear these days, one you used to hear all the time when the Carnegie branches opened: Palaces for the People. The library really is a palace. It bestows nobility on people who otherwise couldn't afford a shred of it. People need to have nobility and dignity in their lives. And you know, they need other people to recognize it in them too.”
― Eric Klinenberg (author), Palaces for the People

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton