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Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)

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“The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“Because in an ugly place, he was born with so much beauty inside him that it was like an act of rebellion. In a world full of sledgehammers, his art was a declaration of war.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“It is probably never easy for anyone to return to the place where they grew up, there's no way to forget who you are there, no matter how hard you've tried to become someone else. But for Ted, its impossible to come home now, he realizes, because home was the people.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“But how do I explain that I am freezing to death if not seen by you?”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“He feels like telling her that the artist didn’t give her the painting because it was his inheritance, he gave it to her because he realized that she was the inheritance. Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people. But he doesn’t quite know how to say that.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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