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Ernest Hemingway
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
Ernest Hemingway

Khaled Hosseini
“For you, a thousand times over”
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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: Mary Saunders trades rags for a red ribbon and sells her body in Hogarth's London―a gripping tale of freedom, silk, and survival

Dan    Brown
“Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.”
Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

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

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