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There Will Be Bodies: A Flavia Albia Novel (Flavia Albia Series Book 13)

by Lindsey Davis

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How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 (The How To Talk Series)

by Joanna Faber

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The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4)

by Elena Ferrante

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Book cover for The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) by J.R.R. Tolkien

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‘There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

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“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

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“To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilization; but no such system has a chance while men are so unhappy that mutual extermination seems to them less dreadful than continued endurance of the light of day.”
― Bertrand Russell

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“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty—unless she is wed to something more meaningful—is always superficial.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God’s will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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