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“Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.”
― Possession
― Possession
“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
― Meditations in an Emergency
“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
― Anne of Avonlea
― Anne of Avonlea
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