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Dear Manny (Dear Martin, #3)

by Nic Stone (Goodreads Author)

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Angus McHaggis and the Bashful Sasquatch

by Michael Nettleton

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“She tried to persuade them to confine their tributes to flowers and sweets, which had at least the merit of mortality; but she was never successful, and the house was gradually filled with a collection of foot-warmers, cushions, clocks, screens, barometers and vases, a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search Of Lost Time (All 7 Volumes)

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“There are those destroyed by unfairness and those who are not.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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“Joe trotted beside his father, who walked quickly. He was thinking that he would never be able to understand why grown-ups were so hard-hearted just when you needed them most.”
― Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home

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“It did occur to him that he could perhaps get some help by praying for it; but as the prayers he said every evening were forms learned by heart, he rather shrank from the novelty and irregularity of introducing an extempore passage on a topic of petition for which he was not aware of any precedent.”
― George Eliot, Complete Works of George Eliot

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“Bridge depends on character. Your character and the character of your opponents. You must consider the character of your enemy. This is true of bomb disposal. It is two-handed bridge. You have one enemy. You have no partner. Sometimes for my exam I make them play bridge. People think a bomb is a mechanical object, a mechanical enemy. But you have to consider that somebody made it.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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