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Margaret Atwood
“You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

Shokoofeh Azar
“And so, with a slow sweep of the arm that remained forever etched in my memory, he took out a match, lit it, and tossed it onto the pile of books. With a quiet huff...ff...ff the flames rippled over the pages, catching first the old books with the brown paper whose smell I loved so much. I vividly remember how Danko's Burning Heart was engulfed in flames that then licked at Luce's skirt who, desperately trying to protect herself from the fire in pages of Romain Rolland's book, held Pierre tightly to her breast. I watched as the fire spread to the intertwined lovers Pierre and Natasha, Heathcliff and Cathrine Earnshaw, Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, abelard and Heloise, Tristan and Isolde, Salaman and Absal, Vis and Ramin, Vamegh and Azra, Zohreh and Manuchehr, shirin and Farhad, Leyli and Majnun, Arthur and Gemma, the Rose and the Little Prince, before they had the chance to smell or kiss each other again, or whisper. "I love you" one last time.”
Shokoofeh Azar, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

Albert Marrin
“Today, we share no fewer than 300 diseases with domesticated animals. For example, humans get 45 diseases from cattle, including tuberculosis; 46 from sheep and goats; 42 from pigs; 35 from horses, including the common cold; and 26 from poultry. Rats and mice carry 33 diseases to humans, including bubonic plague. Sixty-five diseases, including measles, originated in man’s best friend, the dog. We can still get parasitic worms from pet dogs and cats. That is why it is not a good idea to kiss a pet on the mouth or sleep with it in bed.4”
Albert Marrin, Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Ta-Nehisi Coates
“But we must tell our stories, and not be ensnared by them.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

Fredrik Backman
“The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.”
Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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