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“This past year I grew up to know hunger, grief, darkness, fear. I began to understand how lonely you can feel even when all you want is to be alone.”

Book:This World We Live In

Work

This World We Live In

This book delves into the complexities of a world's societal framework and the experiences of its inhabitants, offering a rich tapestry of human life and the challenges faced by its people. more

Author

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Susan Beth Pfeffer is an American author born in 1948. She is known for her young adult literature, particularly for her ability to depict the growth and struggles of teenagers in extreme environments. Her representative works include the 'Life As We Knew It' series, among others. more

“Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appreciation of it, for it is not of the slightest use to them in the struggle for existence. Moreover, they and their organs of hearing were much older than man and his music. Their power of appreciating music is therefore an uncontemplated side-faculty of a hearing apparatus which has become on other grounds what we find it to be. So it is, I believe, with man. He has not acquired his musical hearing as such, but has received a highly developed organ of hearing by a process of selection, because it was necessary to him in the selective process ; and this organ of hearing happens also to be adapted to listening to music.”

Science Music Evolution Biology Natural Selection Surivival Selections

Author:August Weismann

“You have the heart of a warrior and you were designed to survive!”

Spirituality Growth Strength Surivival

Book:Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“I imagine we're safe, happy, and truly in love. And I imagine that I can tell her without shame and stigma attached to my words. I imagine it because I don't know if I'll survive long enough to be able to live it.”

Love Life And Death Surivival Where Darkness Dwells

Book:Where Darkness Dwells

Source: Where Darkness Dwells

“Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best subject matter for fiction. They do not dramatize well. They are, rather, a by-product, something the reader himself is led to formulate after watching the story unfold. The ideas, the generalizations, ought to be implicit in the selection and arrangement of the people and places and actions. They ought to haunt a piece of fiction as a ghost flits past an attic window after dark.”