Top 33 Katarina Bivald Quotes
#1. She had kept well behind the safety barrier her entire life, but now she was standing there at the edge of the precipice for the very first time, fumbling blindly with the realization that there were other ways to live, at how intense and rich life could be.
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#3. What the hell is life if it's not chores and working and making dinner, and then starting all over again?
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#4. A complete waste of time - doubting yourself. If you make the slightest mistake, someone else is sure to let you know about it.
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#5. This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it - so few people, so many opinions?
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#6. As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.
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#7. Very few people had sense enough to appreciate silence.
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#8. People were strange like that. They could be completely uninterested in you, but the moment you picked up a book, you were the one being rude.
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#9. As early as high school, she had realized that few people paid attention to you if you were hidden behind a book.
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#10. There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.
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#11. For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.
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#13. You should avoid being drawn into things, and especially into other people's business. ... If you're tough, and ballsy, and well... not as wimpish and idiotic as everyone else... shouldn't you offer people support? Don't you have kind of a moral obligation?
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#14. I've always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction.
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#15. You know, life would be so much simpler if it weren't for all the people. ... People are overrated. I'm sure I would be able to deal with things much better if it weren't for them.
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#16. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books, at least to begin with.
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#17. The real crime of these lists isn't that they leave deserving books off them, but that they make people see fantastic literary adventures as obligations. You
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#18. She always tried to be a fair person, so she made an effort not to judge him for it. But the fact remained that she was instinctively suspicious of a fit body. So often, they seemed to be entirely incompatible with other qualities--like intelligence or kindness or even basic politeness.
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#19. If he had learned anything in life, it was that there were no happy endings. Life simply went on.
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#20. We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books
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#21. ...nowadays, everyone seemed to be dreaming of absolutely everything. Traveling and loving and having a fantastic career and a happy family, all while being thin, beautiful, popular, and in touch with their spiritual side.
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#22. how tragic it was that the written word was immortal while people were not,
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#23. She had never been someone who believed you needed to have met in person to be friends - many of her most rewarding relationships had been with people who didn't even exist.
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#24. Just look educated. How hard can it be? Off you go." It
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#26. Maybe it's that the past exists purely inside me. ... I've never cared about growing old, but right now, I do, slightly. It's not just that you have so much less future, but you also lose so much of your past, one death at a time.
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#27. It was just that she wondered when, exactly, she had become so old. Perhaps it had happened when her mother died. Some kind of generational shift. The mantel being passed.
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#28. Isn't it funny... that you can be together with a man who is so wrong for you that afterward you've been cured of them.... You get them, you get cured, you move on.
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#29. Maybe that proves I was right about books and people: books are fantastic and probably come into their own in a cabin in the woods, but how fun is it to read a fantastic book if you can't tell others about it, talk about it, quote from it constantly?
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#30. Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.
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#31. Never live your life according to the idiots' rules. Because they'll drag you down to their level, they'll win, and you'll have a damned awful time in the process.
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#33. Can you smell it? The scent of new books. Unread adventures. Friends you haven't met yet, hours of magical escapism awaiting you.
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