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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain (Goodreads Author)

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Scarlet Feather

by Maeve Binchy

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)

by Stieg Larsson

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“Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.”
― Zig Ziglar

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“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: courage, inspirational, strength

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“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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“It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.”
― Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

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