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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

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The Wedding People

by Alison Espach

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Arrow of Fortune (Raiders of the Arcana, #3)

by Jacquelyn Benson (Goodreads Author)

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Helen’s Notes & Highlights

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Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman

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It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn’t match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn’t what you hoped for, or what others expected. There was value in that. I wish teams celebrated this more.

Playground

by Richard Powers

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Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

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Helen’s Quotes

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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“God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

tags: compassion, god, humanity, judgement

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“Make something beautiful of your life.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

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“I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.”
― Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company

tags: love

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“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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