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Marisha Pessl
“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.”
Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Veronica Roth
“I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.”
Veronica Roth, Allegiant

Albert Camus
“We must all know that each mediocrity, each surrender, each act of complacency will harm us as much as the enemy's rifles.”
Albert Camus, Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947

Milan Kundera
“By writing books, a man turns into a universe.”
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Olive Schreiner
“Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.”
Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm

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Laurie ...
169 books | 1,603 friends

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Veronic...
50 books | 3,537 friends

Dierdra...
3,717 books | 1,191 friends

Turner ...
180 books | 304 friends

Melissa
2,082 books | 1,132 friends

Vicky N.
2,490 books | 1,393 friends

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