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kklemaster

kklemaster

Joined June 2016

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.." - Sylvia Plath
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"I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them."

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Swimming Lessons | Claire Fuller
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"'There aren't any men in what I'm writing, only a woman.'
'Isn't she lonely?' You finished your drink, put your glass on the table.
'She has plans - things to do, places to see.'
'And a man would stop her?'
'Yes.' I finished my drink too."

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"self is a process, not an object."

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Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster
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"words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof. it is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars."

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"love saves you, as long as there's a you to be saved."

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"we were painting by numbers, starting with the greens."

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"So what‘s the answer, Evie? What do we do?” I pulled a face and scratched my head. “Er…yeah…I‘m not so sure. Maybe riot on the streets, raise a revolution and overthrow the entire system?”

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Swing Time | Zadie Smith
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"Sometimes I wonder if people don't want freedom as much as they want meaning.”

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Behold the Dreamers | Imbolo Mbue
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"there was a certain kind of pleasure, a certain type of adventurous and audacious childhood, that only New York City could offer a child."

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A Man Called Ove: A Novel | Fredrik Backman
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“...all people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”

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The Couple Next Door | Shari Lapena
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"The wife is always the last to know, right?"

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The Mothers: A Novel | Brit Bennett
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"oh girl, we have known littlebit love. that littlebit of honey left in an empty jar that traps the sweetness in your mouth long enough to mask your hunger. we have run tongues over teeth to savor that last littlebit as long as we could, and in all our living, nothing has starved us more."

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“Sometimes the toilet paper does not win. Sometimes a broke woman needs the red wine more.”

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Torch | Cheryl Strayed
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"work hard, do good, be incredible"

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Milk and Honey | Rupi Kaur
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"he placed his hands / on my mind / before reaching / for my waist / my hips / or my lips / he didn't call me / beautiful first / he called me / exquisite."

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The Girls: A Novel | Emma Cline
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"Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get."

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"it's hard to express how profound it is to have your experience broadcast back to you for the first time, how shocking it feels to be acknowledged, as if your own sense of realness had only existed before as a concept."

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The Marriage Plot: A Novel | Jeffrey Eugenides
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"The lovelorn English major contemplated the symbolism of this."

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"and it feels wild to be the one who's the innocent."

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Drown | Junot Daz
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“Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.”

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This Savage Song | Victoria Schwab
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“Why are there so many shadows in the world, Kate? Shouldn‘t there be just as much light?”

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Dark Matter | Blake Crouch
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“If there are a million ponds out there, with versions of you and me living similar and different lives, there‘s none better than right here, right now. I‘m more sure of that than anything in the world.”

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P.S. I Like You | Kasie West
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"words brought us together."

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"there is redemption in struggle."

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"Bender pondered the wine in his hand. 'A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.'
'That's only three.'
Alvis finished his wine. 'You have to do disappointment twice.'"

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Love Poems | Nikki Giovanni
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"lyric you in lilacs / dash you in the rain ... yeah if i were a poet i'd kid / nap you"

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"it is a strange thing, isn't it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in the adventure of learning?"

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Being Peace | Thich Nhat Hanh
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"the peace movement can write very good protest letters, but they are not yet able to write a love letter."

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"the amazing thing about books is how they have lives of their own."

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Flow | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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"however well-intentioned, books cannot give recipes for how to be happy... whether we are happy depends on inner harmony."

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"it's about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. that's what i want my life to be all about - full of abandon, whimsy, and in love."

surprisingly endearing read. palms up.

MrBook Sounds intriguing. 8y
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#GIRLBOSS | Sophia Amoruso
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"a #GIRLBOSS is someone who's in charge of her own life."

RinaBrahmbhattBarot Is that a cookie? 7y
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"the work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you."

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