Lori Lansens - The Girls (2005)

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The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

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I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I can't trust my computer, though I couldn't do without it. Books are matter. My books matter. What would I have done through these years without the library and all its lovely books?

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If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

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Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

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The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

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Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!

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I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

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