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Cross and Sampson (Alex Cross #35)

by James Patterson (Goodreads Author)

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The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion

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"Hmmm, I guess I mistakenly checked out a play based on this memoir, which was significantly shorter and very choppy. Not a fan. I will read or listen to the full book later and leave this one as "Reading", even though I finished it. Abruptly." — Apr 14, 2026 03:27PM

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Emily’s Quotes

“My greatest fear was appearing stupid; a fear I will carry with me for the rest of my life—a tattoo across my forehead only I can see. All I wanted was to be invisible.”
― Sarah Vallance, Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain

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“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

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“No one had told me that sleep disturbances affect most head-injured folk, sometimes permanently, or that a lack of sleep would significantly hamper rehabilitation. I would never have another normal”
― Sarah Vallance, Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain

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“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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