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Behind the Scenes at the Museum

by Kate Atkinson

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Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

by Emily Oster

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Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) by Octavia E. Butler

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Civilization is the way one’s own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.”

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Taryn’s Quotes

“Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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“Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

tags: human, hurt

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“Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.”
― Emily Giffin, Something Blue

tags: love

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“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: life, unfairness

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