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The Price of Honey

by Liane Moriarty (Goodreads Author)

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Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk

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Penpal by Dathan Auerbach

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we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were.

“The party started churning out more slogans, more propaganda. I couldn’t help but wonder where they even got all the paper for the posters—and whether I could eat it”
― Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

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“It feels appropriate somehow, to have reached the edge of the continent, to have only the hammered sea left in front of him. As though this is the end point Werner has been moving toward ever since he left Zollverein.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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“But that’s the trouble with propaganda. It constantly contradicts itself.”
― Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

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“In the West, I guess you’d call it corruption. In North Korea, it was just standard operating procedure.”
― Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

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“Infantile love follows the principle ‘I love because I am loved.’ “Mature love follows the principle ‘I am loved because I love.’ “Immature love says ‘I love you because I need you.’ “Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.”
― Judith Viorst, Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow

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