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““Bombs are falling and we're reading stories, I thought. I have entered the realm of the insane. -Jacob””

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“Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?…

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“To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all…

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“When it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.”

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“Hugh and Fiona stood off to one side, their hands linked and foreheads touching, saying goodbye in their own quiet way. Finally, we'd all finished with Claire and were ready to go, but no one wanted to disturb them, so we stood watching as Fiona pulled away from Hugh, shook a few seeds from her nest of wild hair, and…

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I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I…

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“Then I was face to face with it. Tongues fanned from its gaping, bladed mouth. Its eyes were black and weeping more black and they stared into mine, inches away through the glass. The hollow let out a low, guttural snarl that turned my insides to jelly, and I half wished the beast would just kill me and be done…

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“It's not about destiny but i do think there's balance in the world and forces we don't understand intervene to tip the scales the…

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“Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved.”

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“You tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.”

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“I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was someone I think I'd like very…

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“ ‘You don’t strike me as a quitter.’ ‘Then you don’t know me very well,’ I replied.”

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“I came to enjoy communicating by hand. There was something sweet about holding a tangible thing that had been touched and marked upon by…

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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

John Berger

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“And yet sometimes she worried about what those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists. The smartest guy in the honors program, Adam Vogel, a child of academics, was planning on getting a Ph.D. and becoming an academic himself. That left a large contingent of people majoring…

Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“...a large contingent of people majoring in English by default. Because they weren't left-brained enough for science, because history was too dry, philosophy too difficult, geology too petroleum-oriented, and math too mathematical--because they weren't musical, artistic, financially motivated, or really all that smart, these people were pursuing university degrees doing something no different from what they'd done in first grade:…

Jeffrey Eugenides

in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do…

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I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know…

Haruki Murakami

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“Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists. The smartest guy in the honors program, Adam Vogel, a child of academics, was planning on getting a Ph.D. and becoming an academic himself. That left a large contingent of people majoring in English by default. Because they weren't left-brained enough for science, because history was too…

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I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff.…

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I always wanted to act. My brother and I would hang out all the time, and a lot of our entertainment came from watching…

Katy O'Brian

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I was reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other short stories…

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“I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet," scoffed Marilla. "You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste time that…

L. M. Montgomery

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“Franklin, I was absolutely terrified of having a child. Before I got pregnant, my visions of child rearing--reading stories about cabooses with smiley faces at bedtime, feeding glop into slack mouths--all seemed like pictures of someone else. I dreaded confrontation with what could prove a closed, stony nature, my own selfishness and lack of generosity, the thick, tarry powers of…

Lionel Shriver

“My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate,…

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