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Dead in the Water

by John Marrs (Goodreads Author)

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When I Kill You

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Meet the Newmans

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Ardette’s Notes & Highlights

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

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copper-black mane.

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Colette

What does that mean? I got a message that you sent me a note. I haven't started this one yet. Just got it today.

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Ardette

Oh sorry. I must have highlighted that from the book. I had it hidden and “undid” it. I don’t know why I highlighted that description.

All the Bright Places

by Jennifer Niven

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In an Instant

by Suzanne Redfearn

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Ardette’s Quotes

“The smells of smoke and vinegar made him hungry; all he’d had for lunch was a peanut-butter-and-raisin sandwich.”
― Anne Tyler, Redhead by the Side of the Road

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“But what we need are readers. Right? Where would writers be without readers? Who are they going to write for? And actors, what are they without an audience? Actors, painters, dancers, comedians, even just ordinary people doing ordinary things, what are they without an audience of some sort? “See, that’s what I do. I am the audience. I am the witness. I am the great appreciator,”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Story of Arthur Truluv

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“Like everyone else, she is stumbling forward, one foot in front of the other, not always in the right direction but staggering on just the same.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, In an Instant

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“Couples sat on benches and the girls walked across a bridge over a wide, shallow river. The bridge was covered in padlocks. Names were written on the locks. Hearts and arrows and the word “Love” in English. At the other end of the bridge a worker in a green zip-up jumpsuit cut locks, one by one. He knelt, brought the bolt cutter into place and squeezed. The locks that did not fall into the river were kicked in by the worker, each one sounding a different note as it fell into the water.”
― Ramona Ausubel, The Last Animal

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“look at the painting again. Despite the obvious differences, this girl is deeply, achingly familiar. In her I see myself at twelve years old, on a rare afternoon away from my chores. In my twenties, seeking refuge from a broken heart. Only a few days ago, visiting my parents’ graves in the family cemetery, halfway between the dory in the haymow and the wheelchair in the sea. From the recesses of my brain a word floats up: synecdoche. A part that stands in for the whole. Christina’s World. The”
― Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World

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