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Jessica’s favorite books

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Knowledge Deficit by E.D. Hirsch Jr. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers And Still We Rise by Miles Corwin Beloved by Toni Morrison Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Looking for Alaska by John Green
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Jessica’s Quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
tags: lost-innocence, memories
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Lorraine Hansberry
“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry
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Anne Tyler
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler
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Vladimir Nabokov
“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
tags: severity
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Zelda Fitzgerald
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald
tags: love
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Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science fiction, Travel, and Young-adult


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