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Yvonne
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Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language.
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”
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Art, Biography, Business, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, Travel, Young-adult, feminism, design, dystopia, social-justice, asian-literature, and new-york
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