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The Starless Sea

by Erin Morgenstern (Goodreads Author)

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Lisette’s Quotes

“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

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“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

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“Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.”
― Alyssa Reyans, Letters from a Bipolar Mother

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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

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