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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, #3)

by Elena Ferrante

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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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Les Miserables

by Victor Hugo

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Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

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When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or ...more

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cossette’s Quotes

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: apothegm, optimism

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“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: community, cycle-of-life, network

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“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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