Kathleen Baldwin · 352 pages
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“And I learned all those many years ago to stop listening to what people said, and listen instead to what they mean. Some people speak with honey and intend to serve us poison. You, my lord, speak with thorns but yearn for cake.”
― Kathleen Baldwin, quote from A School for Unusual Girls
“Joy means so much more when shared with you.”
― Kathleen Baldwin, quote from A School for Unusual Girls
“"You're here because you're odd. Exceptional Unrelenting, Jane followed me to the edge of the circle. "You're unusual, Georgiana. And that is far more dangerous than any fire." ”
― Kathleen Baldwin, quote from A School for Unusual Girls
“Why must people always assume we moderns knew more than any of the previous cultures? It simply isn't true, evidence proves otherwise.”
― Kathleen Baldwin, quote from A School for Unusual Girls
“I wasn’t certain Sebastian’s teasing was the same. It felt different somehow. Sera clarified, “That’s the way men are.” Jane”
― Kathleen Baldwin, quote from A School for Unusual Girls
“I picked up a small square shortbread biscuit and stared at it, noting the uneven angles, wishing it were a perfect square, but it was, after all, merely a baked good, and baked goods did not ordinarily form perfect squares.”
― Kathleen Baldwin, quote from A School for Unusual Girls
“If this is the last decision I can ever make, at least it is my decision. Let me go, Alyosha. I am not afraid.”
― Katherine Arden, quote from The Bear and the Nightingale
“We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“how could a man lead without vision?”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Sum of All Fears
“The closeted homosexual is far less likely to demand fair or just treatment for his kind, because to do so would call attention to himself.”
― Randy Shilts, quote from And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
“They come to understand, with awe, the complexity of the compound identity that existed on the Earth. They conclude with a shudder that the Earthly you is utterly lost, unpreserved in the afterlife. You were all these ages, and you were none.”
― David Eagleman, quote from Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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