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“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life