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Book cover for A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock, #2)

A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock, #2) by Sherry Thomas

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Many people, women especially, she had observed, responded to a compliment by explaining what they had—or hadn’t done—to merit it.

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

by Pamela Druckerman

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Shelly’s Quotes

“You know the rule.” “Not before coffee,” Gracie and Maddie said together. “What’s not before coffee?” Zach asked. “Life,” Jessie said.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Every Dog Has His Day

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“In my time we had very few words, perhaps a hundred that we used all the time, and thirty of them were synonyms for guilt.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

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“You can’t just do what you want, she thought. Why should Mia get to, when no one else did?”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

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“Vasily’s work was consistently abysmal, so it was reported to his father—a very affluent shareholder in the Three Bells—that his son’s work was nothing if not consistent.”
― Sam Hooker, Peril in the Old Country

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“The summits were about ambitious topics, such as, recently, leadership—leadership being something that everyone now wanted, as if the world could be made up entirely of leaders and no followers, the way children might crave an all-fireman, all-ballerina society.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

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