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A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for Emergency Skin (Forward Collection, #3)

Emergency Skin (Forward Collection, #3) by N.K. Jemisin

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Six billion people working toward a goal together is much more effective than a few dozen scrabbling for themselves.”

Laura’s Quotes

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

tags: optimism

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“Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life. ”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: time

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“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: future, life, past

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“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: philosophy

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“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

tags: life

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