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The Road to Tender Hearts

by Annie Hartnett (Goodreads Author)

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I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

by Irene Solà

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“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

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“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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“Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless : Tales of Transgression

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