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The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe

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I loved this quote. This was a difficult book to read because of the subject matter. I cried three times while reading. My husband asked me why I kept reading and I told him that I felt that I owed it to Dita and the people of camp B11b to finish the journey.

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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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“Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.”
― Jacqueline Winspear

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“We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Natural

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