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The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

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Nikki said: " 5 stars. Ms. Morrison certainly doesn't need me to tell the readers of the world how awe inspiring and jaw-droppingly good her writing is, but I will anyway. It's poetry in book form. Ms. Morrison is the epitome of excellence and if you haven't read ...more "

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“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

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“The Lord forgives, but the world does not forgive.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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“It’s weird how easily you can get to know someone from the traces they leave behind when they go.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

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“Was it really that simple? Choosing a life? ...
Maybe you don't fall in love. Maybe you jump.
Maybe, just maybe, it's all a choice.
(Josh Matteson)”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

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