‘She told me the world was made of stories. Nothing else, just stories. And stories about stories.’
-There There., Tommy Orange
Shop update now live 💖
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Finished the pictures, next up finding the time to update the shop. One day, one hour, one moment at a time. But with a deadline of tomorrow 😜
Pictured: a new favorite 💖
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‘You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.’
-White Teeth, Zadie Smith.
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‘Every moment happens twice, inside and outside. And they are two different histories.’
-White Teeth, Zadie Smith.
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‘She’d liked mommy..Mom was something else. Mom meant you are not yourself but a part of someone else. Belonging to someone else.’
-Night. Sleep. Death. The stars. Joyce Carol Oates
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When I was a young boy, my aunt often told me a lie makes things worse. But she never explained that the truth can, too.’
-An Unthinkable Thing, Nicole Lundrigan
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‘They had no sense of history and so could have no sense of the future.’
-Night. Sleep. Death. The stars., Joyce Carol Oates
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Hi SF friends! Tomorrow myself and many other amazing makers will be at this market. Between this very special venue and all the talented, local artists you’ll meet, it’ll be a great time 💖
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‘It is a mother’s perogative to touch a child.’
-Night. Sleep. Death. The stars., Joyce Carol Oates
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‘The only dream worth having…To never forget your own insignificance…never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you’
-The God of Small Things, A. Roy
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‘The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved…’
-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
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‘Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world.’
-The God of Small Things, A. Roy
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‘It is after all so easy to shatter a story... To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it…is much the harder thing to do.’
-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
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‘If you're happy in a dream, does that count?’
-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
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‘If there is happiness at age three, it will last until you reach eighty.’
-The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See
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‘No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice...The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else will.’
-The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See
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‘Fall down eight times, stand up nine…We suffer and suffer and suffer, but we also keep getting up. We keep living. You would not be here if you weren't brave. Now you need to be braver still.’
-The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See
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‘When you know someone so well, it’s as if they lose their names.’
-The Piano Tuner, Daniel Mason
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‘Better to be a gentle soul than one consumed by anger, resentment and vengeance. Anyone can wage war, but maintaining peace is a difficult thing.’
-There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafa
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‘For the king knows that in order to dominate other cultures, you must capture not only their lands, crops and assets but also their collective imagination, their shared memories.’
-There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafa
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‘I think most people are the same. Until they’ve gone somewhere.’
-The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
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‘Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.’
-The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
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‘Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.’
-The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
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‘Sometimes post-eating, usually after a large meal, his body makes sounds like a cooling car after a long drive. I can hear liquids shifting through small spaces.‘
-I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Ian Reid
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“…the thousand seasons—of frogsong, of thunderheads, of first thaws—that hid within the canonical Four.”
-North Woods, Daniel Mason
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“…according to the map, a road should have taken her into the mountains, but the asphalt soon gave way to dirt, dead-ending at a long driveway flanked by those twin heralds of American hospitality, Private Property and Beware of Dog.”
-North Woods, Daniel Mason
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“Nothing is more likely to make me abandon something than to be told to do it.”
I feel like this quote gives some Friday energy 😂
-North Woods, Daniel Mason
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“Nothing is more likely to make me abandon something than to be told to do it.”
I feel like this quote gives some Friday energy 😂
-North Woods, Daniel Mason
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“…each morning, the woods seemed thinner, as if the country were slowly showing him what lay within.”
-North Woods, Daniel Mason
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