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Gothictown

by Emily Carpenter (Goodreads Author)

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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

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The Annie Dillard Reader by Annie Dillard

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The creeks—Tinker and Carvin’s—are an active mystery, fresh every minute. Theirs is the mystery of the continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, ...more

Soul Mates: Alien Style

by K.S. Riggin

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The Lamb

by Lucy Rose

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“It’s strange, isn’t it? To think that a hard heart could make you more vulnerable instead of less?”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

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“I’m saying the world takes you at your word. Make sure the thing you’re telling them is what you want them to hear.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

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“couldn’t remember the last time I’d felt like this—light, sparkly, quick. I suspected that it might be what happiness felt like.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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“I hadn’t lost a grand romance the way he had, but I had lost out on a dream. To make something of myself and get out of this town, to build a life that extended beyond the mountains that ringed our little patch of God’s green earth.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

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“Every day that passed with my hands in a sink full of dirty dishes and my bank account in the red brought me one step closer to the inevitable. Growing old in a place like this, using my youthful disappointments as a reason to hide. Turning into a sour, miserable old woman whose only solace could be found between the pages of a book—or a garden like this one.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

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