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The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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isn’t life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye—the body can never be pure.

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

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Beautyland

by Marie-Helene Bertino

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Monica’s Quotes

“As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pains and problems, we will never be free from them.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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“The desert has mothered magic things before this.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

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“There is no purity to bearing pain alone.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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“Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness, like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, rockets; emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing machines instead of how to run the machines.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

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