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The Misbegotten

by Katherine Webb (Goodreads Author)

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Perfect Peace by Daniel Black

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sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.

Marie’s Quotes

“Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

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“there is only this world and that numbing routines and brief squabbles and financial worries are an essential part of it, that in spite of the aches and boredomes and disappointments, living in this world is the closest we will ever come to seeing paradise.”
― Paul Auster

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“Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.”
― Paul Auster, Moon Palace

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“the closest man can come to the feeling of eternity is by living in the present”
― Paul Auster

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