"A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked."

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Leah Price

#Book Quotes #Home Quotes #Self Quotes

“Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.”
“I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.”
“It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how to do it. It follows, therefore, that anyone who claims that he can fly must have sought the aid of the devil. To attempt to fly is therefore sinful.”
“My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes.”

Source : Jennifer Echols (2011). “Love Story”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate”
“I want to keep working really hard at getting better at stand-up and touring, and I can't imagine a time when I won't want to do that. But, who knows?”
“Above all, I dislike vulgarity.”
“Ideas come from curiosity.”

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