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Little Fires Everywhere

by Celeste Ng (Goodreads Author)

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“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
― Germaine Greer

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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

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“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

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“The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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