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“Hope can be dangerous because it means exposing yourself to the possibility of success, to allow yourself to imagine a happy ending, only to be confronted by cold, brutal disappointment.”

Book:Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

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“How is it that what is actually present and transpiring is commonly perceived by the common sense and understanding only, is bare and bald, without halo or the blue enamel of intervening air? But let it be past or to come, and it is at once idealized. It is not simply the understanding now, but the imagination, that takes cognizance of it. The imagination requires a long range. It is the faculty of the poet to see present things as if, in this sense, also past and future, as if distant or universally significant.”

Past Poetry Time Understanding Imagination Present

Book:The Journal, 1837-1861

Source: The Journal, 1837-1861

“The point on which the town of Seal Cove is built, shelters a small harbor on the south, and a series of lovely secluded coves on the north, one of which lends its name to the town.”

Love Imagination Grief Humour Small Town Literary Fiction Neighbours Small Town Fiction Rural Fiction

Book:The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

Source: The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

“I think a bookshop is like a map of the world. There are infinite paths you can take through it and none of them are right or wrong. Here in a bookshop we give readers landmarks to help them find their way, but every reader has to learn to set their own compass.”

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Book:Tilly and the Bookwanderers

Source: Tilly and the Bookwanderers

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