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Quote by Rachel Hartman

“The body is innocent. Deeply, beautifully, fundamentally innocent.”

Quote by Rachel Hartman

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Rachel Hartman, born on July 9, 1972, is an accomplished American author of children's literature. Known for her unique literary style and profound thematic explorations, her works, including the 'Seraphina' series and the 'The DragonKeeper Chronicles', have gained widespread popularity among readers. more

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“I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don’t need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.”

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“I mean you no harm, except to the extent that the sea is harmful when ships are wrecked against its rocks, and to the extent that the lightning is harmful when it rends a tree in two.”

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Book:Season of Migration to the North

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“This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The impossibility of accepting the new versions of oneself that life kept offering. The impossibility of the old version’s vanishing.”

Book:While I Was Gone

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“There are days when that dark face is something I can think of as a friend – a primal energy that carries me forward when nothing else will – but more often than not I am face-to-face with a stranger, a companion to something I recognise as myself, sure enough, but one who knows more than I do, thinks less of danger and propriety than I ever have or will, feels a cool and amused contempt for the rules and rituals by which I live, the duties I too readily accept, the compromises I too willingly allow (p. 262)”

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Book:A Lie About My Father: A Memoir

Source: A Lie About My Father: A Memoir

“Over there is like here, neither better or worse. But I am from here, just as the date palm standing in the courtyard of our house has grown in our house and not in anyone else's.”

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Book:Season of Migration to the North

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“Our habits and our fears make our choices. We are an algorithm of ourselves--if you liked that you may also like this.”

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Book:The Gap of Time

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“I see myself as a kaleidoscope of selves, wheeling through that poppy studded countryside, the colour from one self always tinting the colour of another. No barriers between them. Only the truth of their murkiness.”

Book:Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

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“My heart cracked. Daemon never begged.”

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“I seemed to slip in a time warp when I visited Morrie, and I liked myself better when I was there.”

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