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The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1)

by Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)

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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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kendra said: " this is perhaps the most ambitious piece of literature ever published and john steinbeck, that woman-hating bastard, executes it flawlessly. cathy ames alone is deserving of a 10,000 word review (not from me lol). initially, i gave this a 4 star rati ...more "

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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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I don’t know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. ...more

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kendra’s Quotes

“He's always going to be old. He has to be. That's the only way I can stay young and dripping with beauty.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

tags: youth-age

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“I've decided to confront it. Confront whatever life throws at me, as I always have. However much I can feel, nothing more, nothing less.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

tags: feelings, life-lessons, living-life, words-to-live-by

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“When those things happened, they learned that although those inches may add up to miles, sometimes those miles were only inches after all.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

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“An older man using a girl to feel better about himself - how easily the story becomes a cliché if you look at it without the soft focus of romance”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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