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“Matthew grieved for the mother he’d had. He figured Leni would grieve for the dad she wanted.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
“FEAR, LENI LEARNED, was not the small, dark closet she’d always imagined: walls pressed in close, a ceiling you bumped your head on, a floor cold to the touch. No. Fear was a mansion, one room after another, connected by endless hallways.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
“Don’t seek out elaborate metaphors,” her English teacher had said of her school essays, but her mother’s death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.”
― Transcription
― Transcription
“The thing about books,’ she said, ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.”
― The Lost Bookshop
― The Lost Bookshop
“Now she knew there were a hundred ways to be lost and even more ways to be found.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
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