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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

by Kiran Desai

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Water Moon

by Samantha Sotto Yambao (Goodreads Author)

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“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: language, words

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“I didn't understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on you. How could a guy live without meanness?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: answers, love, true, universe

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“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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“We all fight our own private wars.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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