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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."

"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."

"Although profanity is part of our language that we speak everyday, it can simultaneity be used as a weapon to demoralize other people if it is offensive within its meaning."

"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."

"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."
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"Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else."

"Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling."

"Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them."

"When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather."

"For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety."

"If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books."
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