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Peter is Currently Reading

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I Am the Cheese

by Robert Cormier

bookshelves: currently-reading, american, fiction, young-adult

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Peter’s Quotes

“You always know when it’s your first time, don’t you? But you rarely know when it’s your final time.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

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“Pity acts through the imagination, the higher light of the world, and imagination arises from the world of things, as a rainbow from the sun.”
― Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter

tags: 1001-books-list

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“Being able to read and write did not provide answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

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“We die of old age from the inside out, rotting gradually as we get older.”
― Nicholas Searle, The Good Liar

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“[T]here is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: childhood, good, home, optimism, uplifting

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