Daily Book Quotes!

Any quotes from books that I read, whether philosophical or sweet. Clearly I don’t post daily anymore but I do my best. Submissions are always welcome, and greatly appreciated! I’ll also take requests! Follow me on StoryGraph at "wildeflower ." Currently reading “Before we Forget Kindness” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.

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“If we get to the point where we don’t help each other anymore, that’s when we stop being human.”

-Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

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“Only if there are angels in your head will you ever, possibly, see one.”

-Mary Oliver, Felicity

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“If you keep yourself centered, everything will be balanced in your life.”

-Terry Tempest Williams, If Women Were Birds

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“Honor your hunger and feed yourself.”

-Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds

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“Reading has not only changed my life but save it. The right books picked at the right times, especially the one that scares us, threatens to undermine all we have been told, the one that contains forbidden thoughts—these are the books that become Eve’s apples.”

-Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds

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“What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?”

-Terry Tempest Williams, If Women We’re Birds

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“Books are not meant to remain in your mind, but in your heart. Maybe they exist in your mind too, but as something more than memories. At a crossroads in life, a forgotten sentence or a story from years ago can come back to offer an invisible hand and guide you to a decision.”

-Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

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“Reading makes you see with clearer eyes and understand the world better.”

-Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

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“Solitude sets us free, just as loneliness brings depth to our lives.”

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

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"You have always thought if you opened your mouth in open water you would drown, but if you didn't open your mouth you would suffocate. So here you are, drowning."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

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“I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom.”

-Toni Morrison

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Happy 94th birthday to Toni Morrison!

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"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away

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"Everything I know about my family’s history, I know in fragments. We are the keepers of secrets. We are secrets ourselves. We try to protect each other from the geography of so much sorrow. I don’t know that we succeed."

-Roxane Gay, Ayiti

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"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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"You ache. You ache all over. You are aching to be you, but you're scared of what it means to do so."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

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“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way. I can’t apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to. We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful. We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”

-Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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Happy 81st birthday to Alice Walker!

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“Crickets have been known to eat their own wings, and I too have a tendency to destroy what helps me get off the ground."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away