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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 1984 by George Orwell Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Martian by Andy Weir
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George Orwell
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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Ocean Vuong
“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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Yōko Ogawa
“Memories are a lot tougher than you might think. Just like the hearts that hold them.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
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Peng Shepherd
“Maps are love letters written to times and places their makers had explored.”
― Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers
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Anthony Doerr
“strange how suffering can look beautiful if you get far enough away”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land
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