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Blue Sisters

by Coco Mellors (Goodreads Author)

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“Everyone knows everything eventually.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

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“Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

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“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

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“I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.”
― A. J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

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“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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