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This Is Me: A Reckoning

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Big Little Truths (Big Little Lies, #2)

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Gretchen’s Quotes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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