@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.”
@daxcornwell.bsky.social"We muddle through somehow. Us lonely ones."
- Jackie, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📘
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“One of the characteristics of some drugs (such as cocaine) is that they make a person feel strong and alert—when in fact the opposite is the case. Don’t allow yourself to be deceived.”
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.”
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Really, some cases shouldn’t even smell the court room. Screw Habaeus Corpus, lock up the criminal and have the keys thrown away.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“You’re mad,” he said in a low voice, “if you think I would leave you now. I’ll see you safe and well no matter what it takes.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Healing severe or chronic pain, I believe, includes transforming our relationship to the pain, and, ultimately, it is about transforming our relationship to who we are and to life.”
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“She was alive, and seeing her like that infused me with a loneliness and indescribable longing.”
- Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Whenever she was unhappy she felt herself at bay against a pitiless world, and a kind of animal secretiveness possessed her.”
- Summer by Edith Wharton
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.”
- Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
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@anaiskireiholm.bsky.social"Just a normal woman."
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social"When people are happy they should not try to become any happier."
- Irretrievable by Theodor Fontane
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