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by Daniel Mason (Goodreads Author)

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Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1) by V.C. Andrews

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Asleep you don’t feel pain or hunger, or loneliness, or bitterness. In sleep you can drown in false euphoria, and when you awaken, you just don’t care about anything.

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“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

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“A fragment for my friend--
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
Silent, my starship suspended in night”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

tags: friendship, poetry

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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

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“They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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