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as a child, Megan knew this to be paradise. Because, she could see with hindsight, her mother told her so. Her mother existed entirely in the moment. And she made every moment sparkle. No one in Megan’s family was ever allowed to forget how
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“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”
― American Pastoral
― American Pastoral
“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
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