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Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

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It was a matter of making it through the night, which is often harder than it sounds, and always a very individual business.

The Paying Guests

by Sarah Waters

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Circe

by Madeline Miller

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Jes’s Quotes

“I’m not happy to go, but one needn’t be happy to make another start.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.” Bloom”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

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“It would be the saddest thing to me, princess. To walk separately from you, when the ground will let us go as we always did.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

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“No—but what does that really mean? I’m fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I’ve long ceased finding that original.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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