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“Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary

“There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.”
― Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club