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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

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Nov 10, 2023 08:09AM

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author)

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“All stories are recycled and all stories are unfair. Many get luck, and many get misery. Many are born to homes with books, many grow up in the swamps of war. In the end, all becomes dust. All stories conclude with a fade to black.”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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“We must all find pointless causes to live for, or why bother with breath?”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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“a solitary middle-aged man in the August of life looking for a few more Aprils, an”
― James McBride, Deacon King Kong

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“Even on the sad days, when you have to process young children or those leaving lovers behind, you come to realise that every death is significant, even when every life appears not to be.”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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“Relationships never truly ended, and even when people faded from you their effect was preserved somewhere in the particle physics of experience where everything is a compound made up of traces of everything else.”
― Ronan Hession, Panenka

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