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C.S. Lewis
“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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Jonathan Safran Foer
“I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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D.H. Lawrence
“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Jonathan Safran Foer
“The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Biography, Classics, Crime, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult


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