smart lady.
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“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.” (Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights)
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“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.” (The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
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“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.” (The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
That book for me: grade 5, Jane Eyre.
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“Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say), I shall have no check to my genius from beginning to end” (letter from Jane to Cassandra, January 21, 1801).
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“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve” (letter from Jane to Cassandra, December 24, 1798)
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