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Norwegian Wood

by Haruki Murakami

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Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

by Georges Simenon

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A Murder of Quality (George Smiley, #2)

by John le Carré

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Ryland’s Quotes

“There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

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“Love is not knowing what you're talking about.”
― Charles M. Schulz

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“Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite, Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea; A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my “plan” was for taking down the Christmas tree.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

tags: parenting, reading

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“Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”
― Jane Smiley

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“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― John Williams, Stoner

tags: growth, love

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