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Ruth Ozeki Quote: “Books will always have the last word, even if nobody is around to read them.”

151. “Books will always have the last word, even if nobody is around to read them.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “God is a story,” he said. “I believe in stories, and God knows this. Stories are real, my boy. They matter. If you lose your belief in your story, you vill lose yourself.”

152. “God is a story,” he said. “I believe in stories, and God knows this. Stories are real, my boy. They matter. If you lose your belief in your story, you vill lose yourself.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “The world has given you the eyes to see the beauty of its mountains and rivers, and the ears to hear the music of its wind and sea, and the voice you need to tell it. We books are evidence that this is so. We are here to help you.”

153. “The world has given you the eyes to see the beauty of its mountains and rivers, and the ears to hear the music of its wind and sea, and the voice you need to tell it. We books are evidence that this is so. We are here to help you.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “Is it odd to see a book within a book? It shouldn’t be. Books like each other. We understand each other. You could even say we are all related, enjoying a kinship that stretches like a rhizomatic network beneath human consciousness and knits the world of thought together. Think of us as a mycelium, a vast, subconscious fungal mat beneath a forest floor, and each book a fruiting body. Like mushrooms, we are a collectivity. Our pronouns are we, our, us.”

154. “Is it odd to see a book within a book? It shouldn’t be. Books like each other. We understand each other. You could even say we are all related, enjoying a kinship that stretches like a rhizomatic network beneath human consciousness and knits the world of thought together. Think of us as a mycelium, a vast, subconscious fungal mat beneath a forest floor, and each book a fruiting body. Like mushrooms, we are a collectivity. Our pronouns are we, our, us.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “The beaches were overrun with jellyfish these days, the monstrous red stinging kind that that looked like wounds along the shoreline.”

155. “The beaches were overrun with jellyfish these days, the monstrous red stinging kind that that looked like wounds along the shoreline.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “What makes a person want so much? What gives things the power to enchant, and is there any limit to the desire for more?”

156. “What makes a person want so much? What gives things the power to enchant, and is there any limit to the desire for more?”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “The Buddha said that responding to email and Twitter is like sweeping the sands from the banks of the Ganges River.” “The Buddha said that?” “Well, maybe not. But the point remains the same. Some tasks are impossible, even if you are a Buddha. Even if you have eleven heads and a thousand arms.”

157. “The Buddha said that responding to email and Twitter is like sweeping the sands from the banks of the Ganges River.” “The Buddha said that?” “Well, maybe not. But the point remains the same. Some tasks are impossible, even if you are a Buddha. Even if you have eleven heads and a thousand arms.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “That’s what books are for, after all, to tell your stories, to hold them and keep them safe between our covers for as long as we’re able. We do our best to bring you pleasure and sustain your belief in the gravity of being human. We care about your feelings and believe in you completely.”

158. “That’s what books are for, after all, to tell your stories, to hold them and keep them safe between our covers for as long as we’re able. We do our best to bring you pleasure and sustain your belief in the gravity of being human. We care about your feelings and believe in you completely.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “If skin marks the border where an I ends and a you begins, then that night they did all they could to cross it.”

159. “If skin marks the border where an I ends and a you begins, then that night they did all they could to cross it.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “But maybe that was the trick – to accept the responsibility and forgo the control? To love without expectation? A paradox for sure, but such a relief.”

160. “But maybe that was the trick – to accept the responsibility and forgo the control? To love without expectation? A paradox for sure, but such a relief.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “There had been moments when she’d sensed his presence nearby, like when the crows left her gifts, for example. Her trinket bowl was chockablock full of screws, paper clips, buttons, broken clamshells, bits of tinfoil, beads and stray earrings.”

161. “There had been moments when she’d sensed his presence nearby, like when the crows left her gifts, for example. Her trinket bowl was chockablock full of screws, paper clips, buttons, broken clamshells, bits of tinfoil, beads and stray earrings.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “It was an explosion of sadness.”

162. “It was an explosion of sadness.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “Maybe she was in a coma after all and just didn’t know it.”

163. “Maybe she was in a coma after all and just didn’t know it.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “Did he hear her? If he had opened his eyes just then, he would have seen his wife’s lovely face hanging over him like a pale moon.”

164. “Did he hear her? If he had opened his eyes just then, he would have seen his wife’s lovely face hanging over him like a pale moon.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “You know how sometimes a thought can feel like it’s outside your head, but you know it’s really inside? Well, the voices weren’t my thoughts. They were outside. They were different.”

165. “You know how sometimes a thought can feel like it’s outside your head, but you know it’s really inside? Well, the voices weren’t my thoughts. They were outside. They were different.”

Ruth Ozeki Quote: “They knew how to make a spoon that was exactly the right shape to hold in your hand and put into your mouth, even if your hands were still small and your mouth was little.”

166. “They knew how to make a spoon that was exactly the right shape to hold in your hand and put into your mouth, even if your hands were still small and your mouth was little.”

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