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Feb 9, 2019

You can’t get people to read books by telling them that literature is important. You get them to read books by being excited about books. And “books are so exciting!!!” doesn’t cut it, you have to get into precisely what you’re excited about. This is how interest spreads

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@visakanv

Sep 25, 2019

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

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@Poeticcjabs

Sep 24, 2019

When Khaled Hosseini wrote “a man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.” I had to stop, put the book down and breathe because never had a sentence knocked the breath out of me like that did.

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That book is so fucking good. Which reminds me, it's due a fresh reading. Thanks!

12:11 PM · Sep 25, 2019Twitter Web App