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Proof of Heaven -- Dr. Eben Alexander III M.D. -- Book Summary & Analysis

by Save Time Summaries

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Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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From Tormented Tides (From Tormented Tides, #1)

by Val E. Lane (Goodreads Author)

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Monica’s Quotes

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

tags: grief

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“Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

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“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito

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“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― George Carlin

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“we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how”
― Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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