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Pavilion of Women

by Pearl S. Buck

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Nebula Awards Showcase 2016

by Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)

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The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog (Mara and Dann #2)

by Doris Lessing

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we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of ...more

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays

by Scaachi Koul

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Colleen’s Quotes

“I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir

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“... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

tags: death-and-dying

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