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“Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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falling leaves and rainy streets 🍂

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The thing you are most

afraid to write,

Write that.

— advice to young writers

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must be the season

of the witch

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🌼Homegoing / Yaa Gyasi🌼 Review 5/5 stars This book will take you all over the world with its many protagonists, it has the powerful ability to make you feel emotionally connected with each of its multiple narrators through only a few paragraphs. Each chapter is so vivid, alive, and worthy of its own story. This is a masterful book that shows the power of trauma and family history. For me, at the end what stayed with me the most was the sense of having your history, your home, your culture stolen from you. This book also brings imagery of the natural beauty of Ghana and the ability of humans to find love anywhere.

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“There should be no room in your life for regret. If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?”

-Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

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“… only bodies died. Spirits wandered. […] They stayed with their descendants to guide them through life, to comfort them, sometimes to scare them into waking from their fog of unloving, unliving.”

— Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

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I may look fine but every time I think of the love fictional men have for their lovers I combust

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Therapy is too expensive but I can afford rain.

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- by cherylraharjo on Flickr.

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'Cause your presence still lingers here ______________ #photography#photooftheday#photoporn#photographylovers#photographyaddict#amateurphotography#naturephotography#naturelovers#nature#countryside#instagood#instagraphy#instascape#instaview#instaphoto#sunnyday#goldenhour#goldenhourphotography#smallpleasures#summer#june#natureshots https://www.instagram.com/p/CfRryRsjyCd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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“For some reason, I can remember Haku… from a long time ago… but I thought I never met him before!”

animangacreators challenge #3: ★ alphabet challenge (3/26): C = Chihiro Ogino

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the wind rises - 2013

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My companion while I'm sick

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One of the many quirky cafe in McLeod Gunj

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