Geraldine Brooks
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. W... JACKY IDO SARAH J. MAAS ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I ... NATALIA TENA JOHN GRISHAM SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SUE TOWNSEND My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My l... ROBERT RIPLEY KING KRULE CHARLIE PUTH AMY PURDY E. LOCKHART He's been a big influence on all of us as far as sports are concerned. We all grew up around sports.... BRIDGET BRENNAN Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearin... JAMES NESBITT NANETTE L. AVERY Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or... CHRISTIAN COOKE My dad was an artist in his own right and had a studio in our basement when I was a kid. My twin sis... JACQUELYN SINGER STEVEN GERRARD WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A library card, ... An adult library card. BOBBY DARIN It's very surreal. When we were little we would watch the pageant as a family, and my sister and I w... JENNIFER BERRY JOHN LEWIS When we were in Bosnia, my dad would go to work, and when he would leave, he always would tell me to... IGOR IVELJIC As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books. CHEECH MARIN LEV GROSSMAN She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GARY KEMP LAILAH GIFTY AKITA SARAH J. MAAS RYAN GIGGS RITA MAE BROWN My first celeb crush was Hanson. I loved all three of them. My sister and I would always fight, and ... ASHLEY BENSON LISA SCHROEDER W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the Britis... BEN SCHOTT Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...MARYUM AHSAM DAVID BENIOFF All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, an... DICK CAVETT GEORGE PLIMPTON When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagi... ALBERTO MANGUEL I fell in love with the library, ... When I knew we would be getting a brand new building, I decided... BILL STOKES I fell in love with the library, ... When I knew we would be getting a brand new building, I decided... BILL STOKES If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we ... ALBERTO MANGUEL WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE H.P. LOVECRAFT When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ... JEFF KINNEY We were nervous, and in fact, we were sitting there waiting, and my husband said, 'If I could, I wou... GRACE CORRIGAN Books are a great equalizer. You may not have the money to travel the world, but with a library card... SHIREEN DODSON IRVINE WELSH SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR SARAH J. MAAS JOHN CENA The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in... AND CITY Desperate Housewives. AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana. JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight, JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent, JILL AND When we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, my sister and I did a local play. My whole family got... DANIELLE PANABAKER NEIL GAIMAN DAVID DUCHOVNY We argue like any other brother and sister would. But it's different with us. A lot of friends would... SAM ADAME I remember my father taking us to meeting with lawyers, interviews with immigration officers, doing ... DARA KHOSROWSHAHI My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come ... VANESSA BAYER BAT FOR LASHES AVI JOHN DAWKINS JOHN DAWKINS ROBERTSON DAVIES I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the lov... JESSYE NORMAN GINA RODRIGUEZ RACHEL CAINE Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so. CHRISTOPHER B. KREBS STEPHEN LEACOCK
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Hodor," said Hodor. 
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I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." 
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