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“It’s just that … this kind of thing, it’s life-changing. You see these shootings on the news and there’s no follow-up. You don’t know what becomes of the victims, their families, the shooter’s family. There is a whole network of people, ...more
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“A man who plants a tree could never be called a pessimist.”
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
Neil Gaiman

Elizabeth Strout
“Who knows why people are different? We are born with a certain nature, I think. And then the world takes its swings at us.”
Elizabeth Strout, Lucy by the Sea

Mark Twain
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Mark Twain

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