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Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

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Creation Lake

by Rachel Kushner (Goodreads Author)

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“This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can’t possibly be true.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

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“I kept thinking how the five of us had had a really unhealthy family, but I saw then too how our roots were twisted so tenaciously around one another’s hearts.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

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“We forgot how to know when we learned how to please.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

tags: feminist, women

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“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it's supposed to be.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

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“My more tenderhearted daughter, Becka, said to me during this time, “Mom, when you write a novel you get to rewrite it, but when you live with someone for twenty years, that is the novel, and you can never write that novel with anyone again!”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

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