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The Library Book

by Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author)

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What My Bones Know

by Stephanie Foo (Goodreads Author)

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Babs’s Quotes

“I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

tags: acknowledgments, chicago

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“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”
― Banksy

tags: art, creativity, graffiti, humor

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“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

tags: carpe-diem, love

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“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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“...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”
― Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief

tags: love, pain, unrequited-love

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