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Then She Was Gone

by Lisa Jewell (Goodreads Author)

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“Ah yes, the most dangerous person at the party is always the girl sitting alone with a book.”
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“heal the roots, to see the tree grow vibrant.”
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“Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.”
― John Piper, A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”
― Toni Cade Bambara

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