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Emma Donoghue
“It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.”
Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin

Benjamin Spock
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
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Matthew Dicks
“Everyone is someone's devil.”
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Peter De Vries
“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

Khaled Hosseini
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
Khaled Hosseini

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