"Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Eye Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Looks Quotes

“What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things,”
“Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And awaken'd the witty and fair; The boarding-school belle's in a flutter, The twopenny post's in despair; The breath of the morning is flinging A magic on blossom and spray, And cockneys and sparrows are singing In chorus on Valentine's day.”
“Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.”
“Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat them that way. That's why I always say don't stare right at a chick. She'll begin to fidget, wondering if her hair's messed up or if her make-up is smeared. It's kind of like going to an art gallery to see beautiful paintings. If you look at a painting just the right way, you get the most out of it!”
“Sometimes I think I'm not normal, and I get weirder and weirder everyday.”
“It's okay to spin around and around in the same place. Just so long as you're singing your heart out. THAT's what life's all about.”
“Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.”
“That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on”

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