Author: The Bookend Diner
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
“Some trees aren’t meant to sprout tender new branches, but to stand stoically on the forest floor, silently decaying.”
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Every Summer After
“I lean in to give him a hug, and it feels like coming home and saying goodbye and four thousand days of longing.”
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The Summer Place
“For forty years, the house had stood, silvery cedar and gleaming glass, on the edge of the dune, overlooking the waters of Cap Code Bay.”
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Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
“All of a sudden, you want an answer for every question you never thought to ask them.”
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The Christie Affair
“The age of disappearing women. It had been going on forever. Thousands of us vanished, with not a single police officer searching. Not a word from the newspapers. Only our long absences and quiet returns. If we ever returned at all.”
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LitUp with Reese’s Book Club
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Lessons in Chemistry
“When you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself back. No more subscribing to others’ opinions of what you can and cannot achieve. And no more allowing anyone to pigeonhole you into useless categories of sex, race, economic status, and religion. Do not allow your talents to lie dormant, ladie
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Book Lovers
“That’s life. You’re always making decisions, taking paths that lead you away from the rest before you could see where they ended. Maybe that’s why we s a species love stories so much. All those chances for do-overs, opportunities to live the lives we’ll never have.”
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Our Little World
“How had I not realized this by now? The impact of small things. Small-very-big things. Each-in-the-moment decision leading to the next. Like rungs on a ladder.”
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Unapologetically Enough
“I’ve never been a patient person. I’ve always felt like I was racing against an invisible ticking time bomb somewhere. My perfection and desire to know how things worked out, in the end, got the best of me.”
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April Wrap-Up
I read 17 books; 2 of which were re-reads and I somehow managed to read 3 Book of the Months (whaaat). It was a month full of some excellent reads and a few that I plan to read again.
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Sea of Tranquility
“… we still don’t know why one person gets sick, another doesn’t, or why one patient survives, and another dies. Illness frightens us because it’s chaotic. There’s awful randomness about it.”
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The Cartographers
“Maps were love letters written to times and places their markers explored. They did not control the territory — they told its stories.”
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The Wedding Veil
“My entire life, that veil had been a symbol of happiness, but I realized that, for me, its significance wasn’t even really about marriage. It was the connection that touching it, wearing it, seeing it, made me feel to Babs and mom, to my great-grandmother, and Aunt Alice.”
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The Younger Wife
“Perhaps the very worst people still had some good in them. And perhaps the very best had some bad.”
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Station Eleven
“First, we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.”
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The Tobacco Wives
“Imagine living like that. Not having to hold your breath every time the checkout girl rings up your groceries, not having the shame when you have to put something back. Not having to worry. ”
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