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Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

Rachel Kadish
Beautiful, Book, Writing
Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.

Rachel Kadish
Thinking, Two, People
Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.325, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Feminism means having a choice. And feminism doesn't care which choices you make, either. Just that you have them. The point has never been to establish some principled refusal to give yourself to another human being. The point is to make sure you can give yourself--or not give yourself--of your free will.

Rachel Kadish
Mean, Giving, Choices
Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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