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Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

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Apr 19, 2026 03:52PM

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The Keeper (Cal Hooper, #3)

by Tana French (Goodreads Author)

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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

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But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could ...more

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“but a story is a flute through which truth breathes.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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“Nowhere does time slow down more gently than inside a museum,”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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“It is our way of admitting we were weak and flawed, and that we made mistakes, some inevitable, others foolish, but deep within we appreciated beauty and poetry, too. Each historical artifact, therefore, is a silent plea from ancestors to descendants, “Do not judge us too harshly.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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“why today, now that I am old, I will admit to being a fuzzy-minded socialist, and a weakly committed one at that, a socialist who looks down the ballot, shrugs, and votes for the Democrat candidates despite their shortcomings.”
― Russell Banks, The Magic Kingdom

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