Category: Books
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11/22/63
“Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?”
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It Starts With Us
“I can draw a seedling with two dirty branches. Yours and mine. We’ll be on our own brand-new, tiny family tree — one that starts with us.”
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The Cloisters
“It was then I realized how thin the light is that separates what we know as fate and what we think of as choice – just an interpretation. Nothing more.”
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Waiting for December
“I guess I don’t want to be free so much as I want to belong — to myself, to a place in the world, to a community. I don’t think I’ve ever felt any of that.”
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Now is Not the Time to Panic
“The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers, we are the new fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.”
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The Kitchen Front
“The most painful part of living is the fact that little by little, our family and friends leave us, and then, in the end, it is our turn. We all have to say goodbye to everything we’ve ever known.”
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Such Sharp Teeth
“My strength doesn’t come from the bad things that have happened to me. It defies those things.”
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Slow Cooker Jackfruit Tacos with Cilantro Lime Rice
I am an absolute sucker for tacos – I try to sneak them into our weekly meal plan as often as possible. But what’s even better? It’s when I can add all my ingredients to a slow cooker and have dinner “magically” ready by 7 PM. So, with that in mind, I created this Slow […]
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The Other Side of Night
“We’re vulnerable creatures. We carry our hurt with us, and each wound forms new scar tissue that makes it harder for the person beneath.”
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The Winners
“The end of life is as unstoppable as its beginning; we can’t stop the first and last breaths we take any more than we can stop the wind.”
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Mad Honey
“How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them, first, as a human?”
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Other Birds
“There are birds, and then there are other birds. Maybe they don’t sing. Maybe they don’t fly. Maybe they don’t fit in. I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather be an other bird than just the same old thing.”
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“Niceness is all about what we do when other people are looking. Kindness, on the other hand, runs deep. Kindness is what happens when no one’s looking.”
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The Bullet That Missed
“As the years go by, you will find that people need someone who is bright and kind more than they need someone who knows how to dance and has got the right haircut.”
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Marple: Short Stories
“Revenge and settling of scores. That’s another thing one finds a great deal of in a small, out-of-the-way places.”
The Bookend Diner 