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“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”
― Bram Stoker's Dracula
― Bram Stoker's Dracula
“Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. Even as a student, I saw many young men who had great natural ability, but who did not have the self-discipline and patience to build on their endowment.”
― Long Walk to Freedom
― Long Walk to Freedom
“Why had I entered this profession? I could have gone in for something easier and gentler—like coalmining or lumberjacking.”
― All Things Wise and Wonderful
― All Things Wise and Wonderful
“She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“As the wise men say, the key to happiness is to have a heart as pure as a child’s—a heart that sees the world as a child sees, a heart that smiles and cries like a child. For such a heart will also sleep like a child.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
Yong’s 2024 Year in Books
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