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Josephine Sorrell
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Josephine Sorrell said:
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The story is written in dual timelines between the early 1960’s and present day. Riley is a young divorced woman, living in her car because her ex-husband gambled everything away. Answering an ad, she goes to Betty’s home for an interview as a live-i
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“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
― The Outsider
― The Outsider
“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
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“Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it.”
― The Librarian of Auschwitz
― The Librarian of Auschwitz
“I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.”
― The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
― The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
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