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Margo's Got Money Troubles

by Rufi Thorpe (Goodreads Author)

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You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

by Christina Applegate

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Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights

by Steve Portigal (Goodreads Author)

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“To me, libraries have always represented the best of humanity. The way we all share knowledge and space, and . . . and how we find ways to look after each other. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s powerful.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

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“My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

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“I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes.”
― Stephen King, The Life of Chuck

tags: motivation, self-steem

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“I was never inspired by something whole. It was always a fragment, a crumb, a piece of a moment, a half-forgotten impression, one side of a person. Never fully formed because it could only be my view of a thing, not someone else’s.”
― Iain Reid, We Spread

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“The tragedy of life isn't that the end comes. That's the gift. Without an end, there's nothing. There's no meaning. Do you see? A moment isn't a moment. A moment is an eternity. A moment should mean something. It should be everything.”
― Iain Reid, We Spread

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