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Pretty Girls

by Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)

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Ellen’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story – A Candid Joint Memoir by a Husband and Wife About Fame, Marriage, and Family

The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story – A Candid Joint Memoir by a Husband and Wife About Fame, Marriage, and Family by Joseph Fink

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There was a fission there, but when you’re twenty-two there is a fission everywhere. Your body has more energy than it will ever have from that point forward, and you project that energy out onto the world. That is why, in retrospect, the ...more

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Ellen’s Quotes

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

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“Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

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“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

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“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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