Category: Books
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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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It Ends With Us
“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
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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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It Happened One Summer
“What he felt for Piper turned him into a young man in the throes of his first infatuation, while also calling on the deepest roots of his maturity.”
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Weather Girl
“That’s the thing about depression. You can know it’s there, know it’s part of you, but you can go ages without seeing it. It lives with you, an invisible roommate.”
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An American Marriage
than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.”
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The Boys Club
shoved the feeling that I was somehow betraying my own sex out of my mind. It was all too easily replaced by the sweetness of inclusion.”
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The Nature of Fragile Things
“It is the nature of the earth to shift. It is the nature of fragile things to break. It is the nature of fire to burn. And just as it is the nature of men and women to build, it is also in our nature to begin again after disaster. This I know, too.”
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One Italian Summer
“There is beauty to the run-down buildings, the laundry strung overhead, the rhythm and drawl of the daily life here. There is beauty, too, in the old Mediterranean architecture, buildings left over from centuries ago, before Naples became what is today. There is beauty in discrepancy — two things that seem oppositional, coming together.”
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Part of Your World
“Love follows you. It goes where you go. It doesn’t know about social divides or distance, or common sense. It doesn’t even stop when the person you love dies. It does what it wants.”
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Black Cake
“Sometimes, the stories we don’t tell people about ourselves matter even more than the things we do say.”
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Beneath the Stairs
Few in sleepy Sumner’s Mills have stumbled across the Octagon House hidden deep in the woods. Even fewer are brave enough to trespass.
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Lovely War
“I am so often moved by souls whose first concern is not for their own lost years but for the grief that their passing will cause to those they love. It’s more common than you might think. The most ordinary mortal bodies are housed by spectacular souls.”
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The Love Hypothesis
“I’m starting to wonder if this is what being in love is. Being okay with ripping yourself to shreds so that the other person can stay whole.”
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The Book of Cold Cases
“It felt good to destroy this place, to rip open its wounds. It felt good to make the dust billow. If I could have drawn a deep breath, I would have screamed into the silence.”
The Bookend Diner 