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“And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.”

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P.B. Kerr

P.B. Kerr was a British author known for his fantasy novels. His works are highly appreciated by readers for their unique worldviews and rich imagination. more

“We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.”

“In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank.”

Needs Humans Self Fear Sleep Simple Too Much Conversation Contact Interaction Blank Being Human Exposure Once Upon A Time Implicit

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.”

Persons Ideas Hard Might Forever Crazy Traditional Being True Amen Being Crazy Crazy Person Working So Hard

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”

Way Enough

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.”

Knows Heart Used Song Asks Father Blood Do You Know Toes Crescendo

Book:Fever

Source: Fever

“I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?”

People Thinking Helping Felt Naked Mortals Ashamed

Author:C. S. Lewis

“God-forsaken is beautiful, too.”

Beautiful Forsaken

Author:Richard Brautigan

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