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“I would rather get a PhD than stand to reach for toilet paper. Though some readers might emphasize the similarities between the two activities.”

Book:Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?: A Mennonite Finds Faith, Meets Mr. Right, and Solves Her Lady Problems

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Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?: A Mennonite Finds Faith, Meets Mr. Right, and Solves Her Lady Problems

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Rhoda Janzen

Rhoda Janzen is an American poet known for her profound personal experiences and emotional expression in her work. more

“I also never encountered a real piece of toilet paper until I went away to college, because my father would stock our bathrooms with the industrial tissue that he bought at a discount from his government wholesalers. It had all the softness and absorbency of typing paper and acted more like a frosting spreader than a piece of toilet tissue.”

Humor Toilet Paper

Book:Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence

Source: Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence

“Grace told her to stock up on toilet paper, that she’d read there might be a shortage. Toilet paper? Seriously? Sometimes her mother was so over the-top in the worry department.”

Shortage Covid Quarantine Toilet Paper Supply Chain

Book:When We Lost Touch

Source: When We Lost Touch

“The quality of toilet paper is never fully known until...shit!”

Life Quality Shit Toilet Paper

Author:Martin "Rainman" Leghart Jr.

“I am not your door.' After a pause for thought, she added, 'But I might be my own.”

Doors Doorways Door Seanan Mcguire Wayward Children Where The Drowned Girls Go

Book:Where the Drowned Girls Go

Source: Where the Drowned Girls Go

“If anyone had asked Katherine Lundy, who was happier these days going by her last name, (...) she would've said being 10 was substentially harder than being 8. And that she would be perfectly happy to go backward, returning to a time where her femininity had been an attribute rather than an expectation.”

Seanan Mcguire Wayward Children In An Absent Dream

Book:In an Absent Dream

Source: In an Absent Dream

“Both girls, through different routes, down different roads, had come home.”

Fantasy Magical Realism Narnia Seanan Mcguire Wayward Children

Book:Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Source: Down Among the Sticks and Bones

“But then, in the eyes all of them look like they had no age and knew everything in the world, anyhow.”

Teenagers Senior Quote

Book:As I Lay Dying

Source: As I Lay Dying

“I wish Merry was here," he heard himself saying, and quick thoughts raced through his mind, even as he watched the enemy come charging to the assault. "Well, well, now at any rate I understand poor Denethor a little better. We might die together, Merry and I, and since die we must, why not? Well, as he is not here, I hope he'll find an easier end. But now I must do my best.”

War Courage Resolve Merry Pippin Lotr Took Peregrin Denethor

Author:JRR Tolkien

“Infinity took me to places I had never been to before.”

Science Physics Astronomy Endless Infinity Boundless Never Places Number Took

Author:Steven Magee

“But then why do we write if not to tackle the fears that others look to us to conquer?”

Inspirational Writing

Book:Author 2.0 Blueprint

Source: Author 2.0 Blueprint

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