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Kaitlin

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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

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read in October 2016

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Kaitlin said: " A great book. A simply beautiful piece of writing, where really not much action occurs but you are enthralled the entire time. Also it had an ending that leaves you thinking about the entire book in a different way. This book is basically the perfect ...more "

Oct 21, 2016 11:26AM · see review

Kaitlin’s Quotes

“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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“...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand...”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: conservation

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“A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward.

A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: book, writing

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“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: live-in-the-moment, wonder

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“Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One day you're a person and the next day they tell you you're a dog. At first it's hard to bear, but after a while you learn not to look at it as a loss. There's even a moment when it becomes exhilarating to realize just how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: ageing, change, loss

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