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Whistler

by Ann Patchett

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The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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Once you name something, it stops you seeing the whole of it, or why it matters. You focus on the word, which is just the tiniest part, really, the tip of an iceberg.

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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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“This wasn’t my first time trying to prepare a meal while dodging the fangs of a dead child who wished me bodily harm.”
― Carissa Orlando, The September House

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