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Lorra Metko

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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Everything in High Place was gnarled and begrimed, but he’d been able to grow bright and mindful, like an odd plant that is carried onto the wrong flower bed.

Lorra’s Quotes

“It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: joy, life, philosophy, repetition, sadness

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“Although isn’t there another side to everyone?”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

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“It's the Van Laars, and families like them, who have always depended on others.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

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“It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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“To be a human is complex, and often painful; to be an animal is comfortingly simple and good.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

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