"I read three books a week."

-- Emma Donoghue

#Book Quotes #Three Quotes #Week Quotes

“If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.”
“I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?”
“You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah”
“Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.”
“Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.”
“All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.”
“By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.”
“Some time ago we discovered the carbon cycle - a long-term set of chemical reactions that govern climates based on how much carbon is free in the atmosphere. At that point, it became clear that humans were affecting our environments far more profoundly than we realized. By releasing so much carbon and greenhouse gas into the environment, we're making long-term changes to every aspect of the natural world.”

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