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    Franz Kafka
    “What do I have in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself, and really ought to go stand myself perfectly still in a corner, grateful to be able to breathe.”
    Franz Kafka, Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka

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    John Boyne
    “What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
    John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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    Pam Houston
    “I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.”
    Pam Houston

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    Angela N. Blount
    “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.”
    Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

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    Stephen Levine
    “Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)”
    Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

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    John Lahr
    “Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.”
    John Lahr

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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Blood is a powerful thing”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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    Anna Burns
    “moment of the fulcrum, the pivot, the turnaround, the instant when the meaning of it all will appear.”
    Anna Burns, Milkman

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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo



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