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“Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.”
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“It’s not good for a boy to want something with all his heart and then be disappointed. Things like that can hurt for a long time.”
― Summer of the Monkeys
― Summer of the Monkeys
“The oceans never stop ... the wind never finishes. Sometimes it disappears, but only to gather momentum from somewhere else, returning to fling itself at the island ... Existence here is on the scale of giants. Time is in the millions of years; rocks which from a distance look like dice cast against the shore are boulders hundreds of feet wide, licked round by millennia ...”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
“How many things would you attempt
If you knew you could not fail”
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If you knew you could not fail”
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“I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives
though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?”
“You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you
think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be
you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.”
“You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him.
He was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used
the girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
― The Arbitrator
― The Arbitrator
Elizebeth’s 2024 Year in Books
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