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Melissa
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Melissa

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Melissa’s favorite books

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 1984 by George Orwell Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Night by Elie Wiesel The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Wicked by Gregory Maguire Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
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Melissa’s Quotes

Anatole France
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
tags: inspirational
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Favorite Genres

Adult Fiction, Biography, Children's, Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Politics, Science fiction, and Travel


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