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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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Ashley Martinez is currently reading

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves

by Dan Ariely

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Sep 07, 2021 03:25AM

“Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. IT has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slipcover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

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“The group had an atomic structure: a nucleus of nuts surrounded by darting, nervous nurse-electrons charged with our protection.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

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“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

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“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

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“Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put bac ...more