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HOLY COW. I cannot tell you the last time I was this absorbed into a book. Between the pressure of the upcoming forgetting, finding out who she really is, and the hopes of saving those she loves, Nadia really went through a lot. I could not put this
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“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
― The Lightning Thief
― The Lightning Thief
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― The Lightning Thief
― The Lightning Thief
“You have to store up books, becoming acquainted with human experience; let them lie around your thoughts, becoming yours—ring upon ring, as a tree grows, let them rise up from the depths like coral islands.
If it gets crowded with all the books and there's nowhere to put your bed, it's better to exchange it for a folding bed”
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If it gets crowded with all the books and there's nowhere to put your bed, it's better to exchange it for a folding bed”
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