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Carolina Echevarría

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“A good parent always gives their children roots and wings. Roots to settle down, and wings to bravely go where you need to go.”
― Brian Selznick, Big Tree

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“For the king knows that in order to dominate other cultures, you must capture not only their lands, crops and assets but also their collective imagination, their shared memories.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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“Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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“Di velt iz sheyn nor di mentshn makhn zi mies,” he said. “The world is beautiful, but people make it ugly.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Light in Hidden Places

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“Words are like birds, when you publish books you are setting caged birds free. They can go wherever they please. They can fly over the highest walls and across vast distances, settling in mansions of gentry, in farmsteads and laborers' cottages alike. You never know whom those words will reach, whose hearts will succumb to their sweet songs.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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For readers taking the Coursera Fiction of Relationship class with Arnold Weinstein Summer 2013.

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