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"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."
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"I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves."
Woman
"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
Ability
"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval."
Fear
"Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home."
Home
"If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life."
Life
"I continued to protect him with my silence."
Silence
"A person who deserves my loyalty receives it."
Loyalty
"The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn."
Parenting
"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."
Narrative
"At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood."
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"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."
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Personal Development
"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
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Personal Development
"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."
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Personal Development
"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
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Personal Development
"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
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"Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an investigatory process. We read books in order to encounter the orchestrated words that describe emotions and observations that we too have experienced but are unable to glean the right alignment of words that fully embody the resonance that we seek."
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Personal Development
"The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself."
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Personal Development
"With a book he was regardless of time."
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Personal Development
"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."
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Personal Development
"Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers?"
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Personal Development
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