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Vybarr Cregan-Reid

We Are What We Read

  • Roberto Garzafez uma citaçãohá 4 meses
    But there was little that was normal about mine and our family’s relationship with Dad. I certainly didn’t love him, whatever that meant.
  • Sheaa.fez uma citaçãohá 2 meses
    books are people—people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
  • Roberto Garzafez uma citaçãohá 4 meses
    Intelligence is no use unless it’s buttressed by other faculties like tenacity. I get my tenacity from my mum
  • Roberto Garzafez uma citaçãohá 4 meses
    He created chaos wherever he went. He went to prison at least twice and nearly ruined our lives.
  • Roberto Garzafez uma citaçãohá 4 meses
    He would want his distinguishing feature to be his intelligence and aptitude, but it was his temper. The second most distinguishing: jealousy. Together, they are like mixing a binary explosive
  • Roberto Garzafez uma citaçãohá 4 meses
    When I catch myself in these kinds of behaviours, on a depressed spending spree or working some complex scheme, I dwell on this inheritance
  • Roberto Garzafez uma citaçãohá 4 meses
    I’m now the age he was when he became debilitatingly ill, and I’m still no closer to understanding the mess of conflicts that he was
  • Roberto Garzafez uma citaçãohá 4 meses
    one of the kids read it, paused and said, ‘What a bastard!’ It was kind of okay in the context of the class because they suddenly realised that the speaker of the poem was manipulating everyone.

    It’s in moments like those that readers are made. Emotions matter.
  • Roberto Garzafez uma citaçãohá 4 meses
    I was asked to read Romeo and Juliet long before Baz Luhrmann filmed it. I found it incomprehensible.
  • Roberto Garzafez uma citaçãohá 4 meses
    Teachers are left to cope as best they can
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