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The Chosen and the Beautiful

by Nghi Vo (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 20, 2025 06:43AM

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The Antidote

by Karen Russell (Goodreads Author)

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“You can, I think, love someone a very long time before you realize this, notice it in the way you note a facial flaw, a speech impediment, some
imperfection which, once recognized, can never be unseen.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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“Eleanor had lied to her husband for all those years because she understood that if you wanted someone to keep loving you, you couldn't ask them to bear all of your burdens, couldn't risk letting them see all of who you were. No one really wanted to know another person that well.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

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“We came from the ocean, and we only survive by carrying salt water with us all our lives—in our blood, in our cells. The sea is our true home. This is why we find the shore so calming: we stand where the waves break, like exiles returning home.”
― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

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“Mine Sadie. This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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“Grief is a ghost that visits without warning. It comes in the night and rips you from your sleep. It fills your chest with shards of glass. It interrupts you mid-laugh when you're at a party, chastising you that, just for a moment, you've forgotten. It haunts you until it becomes a part of you, shadowing you breath for breath.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

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