Quote of the day…
“Any book is better than no book”. – Bookworm, Lucy Mangan
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Quote of the day…
“There is an abrupt blackness and, around Jane, applause. When the lights come on only a moment later, everything has changed. The platform holding the musicians is abandoned, a sheet of music splayed on the ground; the aisle is already filling with people, the mild buzz of everyday conversation, as if it is not remarkable… Continue reading Quote of the day…
Quote of the day…
“It would seem this is the gift modernity has bestowed upon our generation: the practice of “dating,” an awkward procedure where a man and a woman find themselves talking rot to each other in a darkened room. If it were up to me, I would say modernity can keep it, as I want no part.”… Continue reading Quote of the day…
Quote of the day…
“There was one place where I could forget myself and my hurt- the theater department”. – Hunger, Roxane Gay Roxane Gay’s account of what technical theatre meant to her and how it helped her escape herself really resonated with me.
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“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.” – The Secret History, Donna Tartt
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“Amongst other things, The Finishing School expands the tradition in Spark where schools and teachers stand in for family”. This is from the introduction to the centenary edition of The Finishing School, sadly I can’t remember who wrote it!
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“True! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” – The Tell Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe
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“My appetite for wishes had atrophied. I would ignore the clock at 11:11 and unthinkingly flick an eyelash from my cheek- there was not a single thing I wanted”. – All The Lives We Ever Lived, Katharine Smyth
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“I think food and books went together very nicely”. – Laura Freeman
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“If this would encourage people, then it would be a book worth writing”. This is Laura Freeman on The Reading Cure, a book which certainly encouraged me!
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