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The Intruder

by Freida McFadden (Goodreads Author)

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

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“Dear God,” she prayed, “let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry…have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere—be ...more

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“All the stories go with you, Franny thought, closing her eyes. All the things I didn’t listen to, won’t remember, never got right, wasn’t around for. All”
― Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

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“The three stages of life: youth, middle age, and ‘You’re looking good, Mr. Keating.”
― Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

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“To live fully was to recognize and acknowledge the tiniest of beauties, those ever-present, immutable though often elusive truths, pure and simple as a raindrop on a daisy.”
― Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter

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