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Queen of Lombard Street

by Lisa Kleypas (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 03, 2026 02:02PM

“You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.”
― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

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“But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

tags: grief

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“There isn’t for women either. There’s just tall women,” he says, “and the men too insecure to date them.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“You try to blunt certain emotions, but your tool isn’t a scalpel, it’s a sledgehammer. And you’re blunting all of them. To protect yourself from feeling the horrible things, you prevent yourself from feeling some of the positive things.”
― Ariel Leve, An Abbreviated Life

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