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    Anita Desai
    “Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
    ― Anita Desai
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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
    tags: achievements
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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
    tags: traveling
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    Anuradha Roy
    “A veritable atlas. What rivers of desire, what mountains of ambition. Want, want, hope, hope, this is what your palm say, your palm is nothing but an atlas of impossible longings.”
    ― Anuradha Roy, An Atlas of Impossible Longing
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    Anuradha Roy
    “The ocean exerts an inexorable pull over sea people wherever they are-in a bright-lit, inland city or the dead center of a desert-and when they feel the tug there is no choice but somehow to reach it and stand at its immense, earth-dissolving edge, straightaway calmed.”
    ― Anuradha Roy, The Folded Earth
    tags: longing, sea, yearning
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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
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    Katherine Boo
    “Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
    ― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    tags: truth
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    Namita Devidayal
    “When things get bad, you create a perceived enemy, especially when there is resounding endorsement from all quarters.”
    ― Namita Devidayal, The Music Room
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fate, humor, simile
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    Beau Taplin
    “It is a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.”
    ― Beau Taplin
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    Beau Taplin
    “Human beings
    are made of water–-

    we were not designed
    to hold ourselves together

    rather run freely
    like oceans
    like rivers”
    ― Beau Taplin, Hunting Season
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    Beau Taplin
    “Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it.”
    ― Beau Taplin
    tags: illusion, magic, people
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    Ruskin Bond
    “Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.”
    ― Ruskin Bond
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    Patti Smith
    “I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”
    ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
    tags: morals
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    Julie Murphy
    “Perfection is nothing more than a phantom shadow we’re all chasing”
    ― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'
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    Julie Murphy
    “I think maybe it’s the things we don’t want to talk about that are the things people most want to hear.”
    ― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'
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    Haruki Murakami
    “The moment I see her, there’s a rumbling in my chest, and my mouth is as dry as a desert.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
    tags: elephant, murakami
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
    ― Haruki Murakami
    tags: dreaming, life, murakami, sputnik-sweetheart
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    Margaret Atwood
    “It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Door
    tags: childhood-memories, poetry-quotes, praise-poems
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    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    “I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.”
    ― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Before We Visit the Goddess
    tags: before-we-visit-the-goddess, divakaruni, fiction, houston, immigrant-fiction, indian, indian-american, mothers-and-daughters, novel
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    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    “Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift and bright that no man could snare them.”
    ― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Before We Visit the Goddess
    tags: book-club-fiction, divakaruni, fiction, immigrant-experience, indian-american, indian-authors, mothers-and-daughters, novel, women-s-fiction
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    Sohn Won-Pyung
    “I felt my body had outpaced my mind, and that it was as unnecessary and bothersome as a long overcoat in summer. I wanted so much to take it off. If only I could.”
    ― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond
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    Sohn Won-Pyung
    “It seemed to mean that there was more than one answer to everything. Maybe I didn’t need to stick to hard-and-fast rules of dialogue or behavior. Since everyone was different, my “odd reactions” could be normal to some people.”
    ― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond
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    Sohn Won-Pyung
    “a bookstore is a place densely populated with tens of thousands of authors, dead or living, residing side by side. But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then so they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle.”
    ― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond
    tags: books, books-about-books, bookstore, reading, stories
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    Sohn Won-Pyung
    “From what I understood, love was an extreme idea. A word that seemed to force something undefinable into the prison of letters. But the word was used so easily, so often. People spoke of love so casually, just to mean the slightest pleasure or thanks.”
    ― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond
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