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The Darkest Child

by Delores Phillips

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The Briar Club

by Kate Quinn (Goodreads Author)

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A Resistance History of the United States

by Tad Stoermer

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Verna’s Quotes

“People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.”
― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery

tags: dogma, evil, fanaticism, fundamentalism, religion

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“Paper is carbon, he thought. We humans are the same. Books and humans are made of the same stuff.”
― Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore

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“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

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“How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes and the shape of your face the pattern on your palm and the moods that will shadow you through your life. How can you be alive when every choice you make breaks the world into a thousand filaments each careless step branching into long tributaries of alternate lives shuddering outward and outward like sheet lightning.”
― Dan Chaon, You Remind Me of Me

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