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The Miniaturist (The Miniaturist, #1)

by Jessie Burton

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read in January 2026

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“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Christopher Roden; Tsukasa Kobayashi; Akane Higashiyama; Hiroshi Takata

tags: inspiration, light, sherlock-holmes

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“It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.”
― Colin Wilson, A Criminal History of Mankind

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“I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

tags: father, son

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“How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

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“It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

tags: memories, memoryes, remember, remembering, time

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