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“It’s a kind of reincarnation without death: all these different lives we get to live in this one body, as ourselves.”

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“When I try to imagine the addresses of the houses and apartments I lived in before my grandparents kidnapped me, I can’t remember anything.”

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun

“How rich and diverse, how complex and non-linear the history of all women is.”

A History of Women in 101 Objects

Annabelle Hirsch

“All that matters is that you are making something you love, to the best of your ability, here and now.”

The Creative Act

“We have brought this cauldron of rush upon ourselves. Time seems faster because we have made it so”

“If you’d glanced just once across the field, you’d have seen me standing in the middle on my own, looking straight at you . . . But you didn’t. You only had eyes for Alice”

Things We Have in Common

“One September morning, Giovanni Drogo, being newly commissioned, set out from the city for Fort Bastiani; it was his first posting.This was the day he had looked forward for years - the beginning of his real life”

The Tartar Steppe

“She should have kept him with her, should not have let him go. A crazy thought. She couldn’t have stopped him. Never could”

“Tabard Inn to Canterbury Cathedral, Poet pilgrims competing for free picks, Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remix and we're keeping it real, reminisce this: Chaucer Tales were an unfinished business.”

Patience Agbabi

Simon's Cat Window Pain

Simon’s Cat in ‘Window Pain’

“Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be”

A Tale for the Time Being

“It’s big, it’s fat, it’s Simon’s Cat!”

“It would take her thousands of steps to get anywhere, but she would get there easily, and when she arrived, in the present, it would seem like it had been a single movement that brought her there”

“He’s called Kasper. He’s an Italian prisoner. Kasper has been his code name for a long time, his battle name in a life filled with battles. Now his only battle is to stay alive”

The Supernotes Affair

Agent Kasper & Luigi Carletti

“For she’d met with books, she went into them to a magic land far from Echt, out and away and south”

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

“The best way to help a child through a challenging moment is to give them a story about it, whether they’re being bullied, have fallen in love for the first time, or the tooth-fairy failed to show up”

Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin

“The abandoned universe was such a weird place, because even though it had been shut down for ever, there were still lights on inside, as if nothing had changed”

Some Rain Must Fall And Other Stories

“Mathematics is a world of eternal truths and abstract perfection. Exploring its transcendent beauty can be a spiritual experience”

Snowflake Seashell Star

“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Caitlin Doughty

“Trickster is the mythic embodiment of ambiguity and ambivalence, doubleness and duplicity, contradiction and paradox… A boundary-crosser”

Trickster Makes This World

“The only visible sign of his power was a woman lying beside him, unmoving, her head resting on his lap, eyes closed, arms hidden under a loose red robe that spread around her, like a flame, on the ash-coloured mat”

Alessandro Baricco

“Don't let them make you feel stupid, just because you are happy to play down in the dark with your flashlight. The mystical world depends on you and your tolerance for the absurd. Be strong, my darling ones, and believe!”

The Sick Bag Song

“It’s a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming into it. Tears from the very start.”

“Somewhere in the world there is a magical book. What does this book do? It simply changes itself to become the book you most need at this point in your life”

The Seed Collectors

Scarlett Thomas

“There was hardly a door, barely a wall: only a flap of bark, a screen of sticks and mud. There was no need of lock, of door, of wall: this was a prison whose bars were ten thousand miles of water”

The Secret River

“What is the fascination of an island? Why do we experience such a thrill at being surrounded by water, cut off from the rest of mankind, imprisoned on a miniature world”

The Scottish Islands

Hamish Haswell-Smith

“I thought about flying, stood sometimes on the edge of the rock and wondered. But much as I’d of liked to, and young as I was, I had the sense to know I’d have to wait for some other way to fly”

Sarah Thornhill

“Ungraspable Loki flamed amazement and pleased himself. He was the god of endings. He provided resolutions for stories – if he chose to. The endings he made often led to more problems”

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