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Kiley Dunbar, Christmas at the Borrow a Bookshop

Michelle Hodkin
“Confession: What I understand that They—most everyone, really—don’t, is that suicide isn’t an act of selfishness. Sometimes the hurt/pain/shame/loss is so much, so constant, and with no guarantee that it’ll ever dissolve, sometimes the cost/benefit analysis of life/death truly feels like it’ll only ever work out in in favour of death.”
Michelle Hodkin, The Becoming of Noah Shaw

Barbara  Davis
“But I’ve come to believe we create our own curses and carry them through life because we’ve been told it’s our lot. We’re taught to relive our mothers’ heartaches, to accept their sufferings as our own, and pass them on to the next generation, again and again, until one of us at long last says no, and the curse is finally broken.”
Barbara Davis, The Keeper of Happy Endings

Mary Turner Thomson
“Those of us who have been deceived are made to feel stupid and embarrassed, although we have done nothing but have faith in someone who professed love.”
Mary Turner-Thomson, The Bigamist: The True Story of a Husband's Ultimate Betrayal

Menna Van Praag
“She’s long ago given up wishing that she had a mother who felt things less keenly, who was able to contain her emotions, at least in front of the person who was suffering first-hand. Ever since she was a little girl, Viola had experienced everything twice: when it happened and then when she’d told her mother what happened. The second time was always worse because her mother’s reaction would always reignite Viola’s own pain and then she’d have the extra pain of her mother to contend with too.”
Menna van Praag, The Patron Saint of Lost Souls: The bewitching novel of getting your heart's desire

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