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The Great Hunt (Wheel of Time, #2)

by Robert Jordan

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read in December 2014

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Casie said: " Took me 2 tries to get through this book. It took forever to get to the good stuff. Most of it was slow character development. The story for this book could have been cut WAY back band fit into part of the next book. I have no idea how people would h ...more "

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(page 602 of 705)
— Dec 02, 2014 05:45AM

Dec 10, 2014 06:26PM · see review

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The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

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read in April 2019

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“Whoever's been there knows/ how vicious/ a partner sorrow makes/ to them that's got little/ solid friendship/ they know the hero's path/ instead of woven gold/the frozen inner world/ instead of all that's good on earth”
― Anon

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“There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

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“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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“Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime." He shuddered.”
― Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma

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