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“If our stories survive, we will not die, even when our bodies are no longer here on this Earth.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

“The idea of the book that matters most," Kiki said. "Because i think it's like impossible to pick such a book. When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not. Like if you're unhappy and you read, I don't know, On the Road or The Three Musketeers, and that book changes how you fell or how you think, then it matters the most. At that time.”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“You never know what you can do," he says, "until you get it done.”
― Judy Reene Singer, In the Shadow of Alabama

“We poison ourselves and we poison each other. A cruel remark, the turn of a shoulder, the indifference to someone's pain. I remember how often I flinched under my father's comments, but I never realized how much it could fester, infiltrate in its insidious, toxic way, through his life my life, a family. A culture.”
― Judy Reene Singer, In the Shadow of Alabama