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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

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Mere Christianity

by C.S. Lewis

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If God, Why Evil?: A New Way to Think About the Question

by Norman L. Geisler

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“There are still more days to travel in this life. And he knows that the man who makes the journey has been shaped by every day and every person along the way. Scars are just another kind of memory....Soon enough the days will close over their lives, the grass will grow over their graves, until their story is just an unvisited headstone.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

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“Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion to flee—a seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores.
— Teller: A Novel”
― Frederick Weisel

tags: autobiography, escape, frederick-weisel, teller, weisel

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“The features of character are carved out of adversity.”
― Rick Barnett

tags: autobiography, biography, fiction, inspirational, memoir, romance, science, science-fiction

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“Scars are just another kind of memory.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

tags: inspirational, inspirational-quotes, memory, scars

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“For the last several days I've had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I've stopped off at a few bookstores around the city, and while I've looked at hundreds and hundreds of books in that time, I have not found the one book that will satisfy my urge. It's not as if I don't have anything to read; there's a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I've been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that's afflicted me most of my life. I know enough about the course of the disease to know I'll discover something soon.”
― Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

tags: books, bookstores, hunger, reading, urges

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