Elise Grandy

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Book cover for Knock Knock, Open Wide
life is cruel and arbitrary and awful and you have to seize your happiness and hold on until your fingernails bite your palms and draw blood?
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Jonathan Safran Foer
“My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Daniel Defoe
“Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.”
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe
“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe
“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about : ...”
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Madeline Miller
“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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