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“I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.”
― A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indiana
― A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indiana
“Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand.”
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“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Out there somewhere there is a love who will never dream of calling you too much. Who speaks, like you, in poetry and candlewax and stardust. Who runs outside on stormy nights to howl at the moon. Who collects bones and sings incantation and talks to the ancestors. And that lover, when you find him or her, will see you and know you – just as you are and just as you should be.
And they will say yes. Yes, you. I will go there with you. I have been waiting for this.”
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And they will say yes. Yes, you. I will go there with you. I have been waiting for this.”
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