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“Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends”

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Tamora Pierce is an American writer known for her young adult literature. Her works often explore themes of gender, power, and growth, and are highly appreciated by young readers. more

“In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from Fielding to Thomas Mann. They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as physical objects: she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane from the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”

World Book Eye Found Walks Numbers Secret Novel Streets Century Possibility Objects Arms Weapons Significance Brotherhood Imaginary Elegant Emblems Dandy

Author:Milan Kundera

“Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.”

Important Jobs House Dog Cat Function Rings Important Jobs

Book:A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans

Source: A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans

“God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I’d never learned to read.”

People Ifs Knows World Years Mind Looks Has Beens Said Would Be Reading Wish Boys Nice This World Misery Bitter Swings All The Best

Author:Dorothy Parker

“For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.”

Mean Self Facts Problem Wisdom Findings Salvation Saint Who I Am Discovering True Self Sanctity

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22)”

Creation Heavenly Happenstance Spam

Author:Megan McCafferty

“Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.”

Persons Jesus Realizing My Own Offers Prove Occasions Judgement Unconditional Love Forbidden Discipleship Unconditional Shortcomings Prove To Me

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York.”

Knows Way Believe Kids Certain Winning Grows Loses Know How Growing Up New York Morality Thousand Loyalty Winning And Losing Sixth Sense

Author:James Caan

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