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“It is essential to practice reading as an art.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals

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Margaret Atwood, from Power Politics

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Emma Watson discusses her Little Women role

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“He knew that Ron and Hermione were more shocked than they were letting on, but the mere fact that they were still there on either side of him, speaking bracing words of comfort, not shrinking from him as though he were contaminated or dangerous, was worth more than he could ever tell them”

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I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

Paula Hawkins (The Girl on the Train)

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I made a rule for myself: I would not include anything that human beings had not already done in some other place or time, or for which the technology did not already exist. I did not wish to be accused of dark, twisted inventions, or of misrepresenting the human potential for deplorable behaviour. The group-activated hangings, the tearing apart of human beings, the clothing specific to castes and classes, the forced childbearing and the appropriation of the results, the children stolen by regimes and placed for upbringing with high-ranking officials, the forbidding of literacy, the denial of property rights: all had precedents, and many were to be found not in other cultures and religions, but within western society.

Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid’s Tale in a 2012 interview  (via this-is-sar)

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*brings books to social events*

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You not only employ my mind all day; but you intrude upon my sleep. I meet you in every dream-and when I wake I cannot close my eyes again for ruminating on your sweetnesses.

Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, October 5, 1780, two months before their wedding (via this-mundane-world)

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The Lunar Chronicles + Hamilton Quotes

Cinder: I've seen injustice in the world and I've corrected it.

Kai: They're asking me to lead, I'm doing the best I can.

Thorne: I prob'ly shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish.

Cress: Helpless, look into your eyes and the sky's the limit

Scarlet: Uh...France.

Wolf: Ev'ry day you fight like you're running out of time.

Winter: I am the one thing in life I can control.

Jacin: Geniuses, lower your voices.

Levana: I will kill your friends and family, to remind you of my love.

Iko: You want a revolution, I want a revelation.

Dr Erland: Immigrants, we get the job done.

Konn Torin: Talk less, Smile more.

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last hours snippet

Will had been sitting on the floor, the rug bunched up under his feet, with his back against Tessa’s legs. He looked up when Jem came in, and Jem, in his Silent Brother robes, went over to Will and sat down beside him. He drew Will’s head against his shoulder, and Will held the front of Jem’s robes in his fists and he cried. It was the first time it had ever occurred to James that his father might cry about anything. — Chain of Gold, The Last Hours Book 1

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And many Dear Readers will become writers in their turn. That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

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Because women are interesting and important in real life. They are not an afterthought of nature, they are not secondary players in human destiny, and every society has always known that.

Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale)

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