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THE STORIED LIFE OF A J FIKRY. For those who loved WHERE THE CRAWDAD SINGS, bingo! Follow it with this little delight of a novel. A J is a 41 year old widower who owns a bookstore that he started with his late wife. So, he is unhappy running it now b
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“From those of us who are left behind: you will be remembered, you were the one I needed, I loved you in my dreams.”
― Lunar Park
― Lunar Park
“Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the Earth Where nothing lives but crosses, cares, and grief.”
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“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”
― The Lovely Bones
― The Lovely Bones
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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