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“There is nothing stopping a beautiful girl from facing her books”

— Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

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“Already, I was coming undone, like a hastily tied scarf coming loose, on the ground before the owner is aware of it.”

“Di we ever really know what we will do in any situation until the situation presents itself?”

Stay with Me (2017)

“The road stretches before us, shrouded in a darkness transitioning into dawn as it leads me back to you.”

Stay with Me (2017)

Maybe she was one of those people for whom satisfaction lay only in the future, forever slightly out of reach.

A Spell of Good Things (2023)

Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered.

A Spell of Good Things (2023)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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