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Jessica is currently reading

A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True

by Brigid Pasulka (Goodreads Author)

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“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

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