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Jonathan Franzen _ Purity
The cabin was dark. Inside it was the sound of her childhood, the patter of rain on a roof that consisted only of shingle and bare boards, no insulation or ceiling. She associated the sound with her mother's love, which had been as reliable as the rain in its season. Waking up in the night and hearing the rain still pattering the same way it had when she'd fallen asleep, hearing it night after night, had felt so much like being loved that the rain might have been love itself.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout _ Every Last Breath
Stacey was holding the throw pillow to her mouth now, and all that was visible were her huge, dark brown eyes. When she spoke, her voice was muffled."Who is that?" I started to explain, but Cayman bowed in her direction extending his arm with a flourish."Only the most handsome and smartest and downright most charming demon there is."But I know that's a mouthful, so you can call me Cayman." "Um." Her gaze darted around the room."Okay.
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Mitch Albom _ The Five People You Meet in
Religion? Government? Are we not loyalto such things, sometimes to the death?"Eddie shrugged."Better," she said, "to be loyal to one another.
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John Fowles _ The Collector
I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ The Kalahari Typing School for
because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what it is that has to be changed.
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James Patterson _ I Funny: A Middle School Story
Yesterday I asked my teacher, 'How come I have to study English? I'm never going to England!' " Stevie still isn't laughing, but
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Gabor Maté _ When the Body Says No: The
In Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom reports that Morrie Schwartz, his former professor terminally ill with ALS, "was intent on proving that the word 'dying' was not synonymous with 'useless.'" The immediate question is why one would have a need to prove this. No human being is "useless," whether the helpless infant or the helpless ill or dying adult. The point is not to prove that dying people can be useful but to reject the spurious concept that people need to be useful in order to be valued. Morrie learned at a young age that his "value" depended on his ability to serve the needs of others. That same message, taken to heart by many people early in life, is heavily reinforced by the prevailing ethic in our society. All too frequently, people are given the sense that they are valued only for their utilitarian contribution and are expendable if they lose their economic worth.
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Jennifer Weiner _ Hungry Heart: Adventures in
Back then, I didn't understand that what was happening in my house was not happening in everyone's house at night, when the doors were shut and the blinds were drawn. It took me just as long to sort out my physical self-how to dress in a way that flattered my shape, how to do my hair and makeup {or pay professionals to do it}, how to be in a body, in the world. It took time before I could take all that pain and use it; transform all that loneliness and isolation and shame into stories.
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Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina
I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.
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Neil Gaiman _ Preludes & Nocturnes
All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop.She's realized the real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death."
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J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Two Towers
Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
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Eoin Colfer _ The Atlantis Complex
Weet je, juffrouw Holly, je ziet er heel dramatisch uit zo met dat vuur achter je. Heel aantrekkelijk als ik zo vrij mag zijn. Ik weet dat je een moment passionné met Artemis hebt gehad...' … Foaly nam als eerste weer het woord. 'Wat sta je daar nou te kijken, kapitein Short? Wat gaat er op dit moment door je hoofd? Niet nadenken, gewoon zeggen.
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