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Book cover for Beneath a Scarlet Sky
“Your father is a wise man,” the cigar trader said. “Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can’t fathom.”
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Emily St. John Mandel
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

Lisa Taddeo
“The problem, she's starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sending you there. He keeps you in a dinerlike purgatory instead, waiting and hoping and taking orders.”
Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

Delia Owens
“His eyes were the same as they had been. Faces change with life’s toll, but eyes remain a window to what was, and she could see him there.”
Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Lisa Taddeo
“We don't remember what we want to remember. We remember what we can't forget.”
Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

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