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How quickly contempt can dissipate when faced with the pathetic humanness of another person. You see inside them for even the briefest moment and suddenly empathy blows through. A dark sky cleared by a hard rain.
“She wanted a man whose trunk was thick but whose bark was thin, who flowered beautifully, even if only for her.”
― We Are Not Ourselves: A New York Times Notable Book and Sprawling Irish-American Adult Fiction Novel
― We Are Not Ourselves: A New York Times Notable Book and Sprawling Irish-American Adult Fiction Novel
“The quiet beauty of the library might be that even at the end of the world, it would be the last structure where you didn’t need money to experience a sense of welcome, a broadness, this calm ocean of humanity.”
― What We Kept to Ourselves
― What We Kept to Ourselves
Too Busy for Book Club Book Club
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This group loves to read but we don't always have time for a book club! We'll start with one book but the hope is to have several areas from bestselle ...more
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