You made a haunted house out of your own flesh and bones.
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When you’re an only child, semi-imprisoned, books become more than paper between hard cardboard, more than the alphabet organized into words and printed on a page.
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Who cared that life was lonely, that jobs were thankless drudgery, that the romance of the proud American state was myth, that the rules of life were laid carefully in neat books and laws written by stern Europeans who stalked the town and state like the grim reaper, with their righteous churches spouting that Jews murdered their precious Jesus Christ?
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I did not know when humans pray for nature, they pray for something to control.
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Women can be heroes, too.
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The world he thought he knew had become an odd thing, twisting time and purpose. But it had remained an unfair universe in the end.
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Men were always so afraid of tears, of having a hysterical woman on their hands.
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If you expected the present to be a continuation of the past, you weren't actually looking at the present through clear eyes.
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Depraved, disturbing, deranged, & delightful.
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We have been given immense power, and we must use it. To squander it would be wicked especially if we do not use it to right wrongs
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“They came for Manchuria first. They will come for Shanghai next, swallow up the coastal city where they have already been allowed land and law. The empire across the sea is small. And when this is an age of expansion, they will claim that invasion must be performed in self-defense, that it is a necessity while their people grow hungrier, a population with mouths to feed and feet to plant.”
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“That’s ridiculous—I would never kick him onto the sofa,” Juliette replied. “If he ever angers me, a better punishment would be for him to continue sleeping next to me, feeling the power of my wrath.”
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If you shrink yourself to the smallness of your circumstances, you’ll soon disappear.
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Words are our tools of resurrection.
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The story of a century of life.
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Lenna, a young Englishwoman, lives in Paris under the tutelage of Vaudeline D’Allaire - a powerful medium who contacts murder victims to discover the identity of their killers. Lenna travels with Vaudeline under the guise of continued mediumship training, but plans to secretly investigate her own sister, Evie’s, murder.
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But you know what's worse than suffering? Not suffering, because you're not even alive to feel it.
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The Book Spy follows the stories of Tiago in Lisbon and Maria from New Jersey during World War II. When Maria’s path crosses Tiago’s, they form an incredible bond and agree to help each other and end the war.
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People are awkward, they don’t always know what to do or say. Don’t hold it against them. You never know what’s in their hearts.
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The Lost Apothecary tells the story of present-day Caroline and late 1700s Nella. These two women are different, with different problems, but common similarities of troubled relationships and external forces seemingly working against them.
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