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The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5) by Dean Koontz

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Art made life in a dark world tolerable, but when a declining culture arrived at a critical depth, art alone was insufficient either to restore that culture to health or to prevent its further descent into an abyss. He

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“The culmination of every day, no matter what it holds, carries the promise that tomorrow will bring the rest of your life. Embrace what has come before. Embrace what is before you. In so doing, you will learn the joy of living. The joy of living…”
― Ginny Dye, The Last Long Night

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“that’s more or less the textbook definition of an alcoholic. Someone who knows it’s time to cut down but can’t.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Take Me with You

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“I will ask forgiveness and also forgive myself, so I can be free to love you and grieve well.”
― Gary Roe, Comfort for the Grieving Spouse's Heart: Hope and Healing After Losing Your Partner

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“There are heroes, and there are the rest of us. There comes a time when you just let go the ghost of the better person you might have been.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, Reservation Road

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“… if you substitute arbitrary violence, hatred and jealousy for justice, legality and right, it may be that you will succeed in carrying your point; it may be that a great wrong will be accomplished by the exercise of sheer force, and the weight of superior numbers: but your reputation among the nations of the earth will be irretrievably injured and debased, and the flag of which you are so justly proud will no longer be the standard of freedom and the hope of the oppressed, but will be associated with deeds of falsehood and treachery.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Touch

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