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The Information (Vintage International)

by Martin Amis

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Sisters

by Lily Tuck

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Let the Dead Speak (Maeve Kerrigan, #7)

by Jane Casey (Goodreads Author)

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“The most capacious minds praise and are positive. Cranks and misfits, praise least.”
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“I drank from your concentrated quiet; in this contemplative calm. Now I drink from your stillness that neither of us can disturb or escape.”
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“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

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“Show me what you are reading and I will know who you are".”
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“It would be many years before I began to understand that all of life is practice:writing, drawing, hiking, brushing teeth, packing lunch boxes, cooking walking dogs, even sleeping. We are always practicing. Only practicing.”
― Danbi Shapiro

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