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Ghost (Track, #1)

by Jason Reynolds

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Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times

by Andrew D. Kaufman (Goodreads Author)

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Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children's Literature

by Betsy Bird (Goodreads Author)

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Karen’s Quotes

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.”
― Dorothy Allison

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“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

tags: lies, lying, truth

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“They think I'm too old to cause trouble.
Old age is a powerful disguise.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

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“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

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“I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

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