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Shrines of Gaiety

by Kate Atkinson

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My Darling from the Lions

by Rachel Long

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A Mind of My Own: 'Irrepressibly funny' - Sunday Times

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“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

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“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.”
― Emma Thompson

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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein

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“Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.”
― Danny Wallace, Yes Man

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“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
― Henri Bergson

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