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quote 2015-08-09 18:41

Jessica's Book Thoughts

You cannot know with what intensity, with what frequency I remember you.

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quote 2015-08-02 14:09

Mike Mullin, Author

[My mother] was a stickler for good grammar. I remember that she'd bristle whenever someone misused the subjunctive tense. "If I were," she'd shout when someone incorrectly said "If I was."

Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family - Condoleezza Rice

Page 20 and 21 of Condoleezza Rice's memoir, Extraordinary, Ordinary People. I find this quote hysterical because the subjunctive is a mood, not a tense. Rice's mother would no doubt be less amused than I.

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quote 2013-09-23 01:30

The Fangirl

...illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is you do. Do that, and little by little it might gradually get to be, if not a better world, then a better understood world.