We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

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And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One mome... by Libba Bray

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

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Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

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The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.

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What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?

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Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet. by Libba Bray

Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.

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I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should b... by Libba Bray

I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.

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Write like it matters, and it will. by Libba Bray

Write like it matters, and it will.

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I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.

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People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History

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So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

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There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

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Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

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I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

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People see what they want to see when they need to. by Libba Bray

People see what they want to see when they need to.

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There is no greater power on this earth than story. by Libba Bray

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

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A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.

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Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as... by Libba Bray

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

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Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you r... by Libba Bray

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

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Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.

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Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell

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