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Milkman by Anna Burns A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara East of Eden by John Steinbeck Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
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East of Eden
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A Little Life
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Roxane Gay
“We were young once and then we weren’t.”
― Roxane Gay, Difficult Women
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Emily Brontë
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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Gillian Flynn
“To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
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Khaled Hosseini
“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
tags: alone, man-s-heart, men, sad, violence, women
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Chuck Palahniuk
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
tags: fight-club, inspirational, tyler, tyler-durden
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