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The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them

by Peter Wohlleben

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin (Goodreads Author)

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North

by Richard Flanagan

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“They will say ‘Agnes’ and see the spider, the witch caught in the webbing of her own fateful weaving. They might see the lamb circled by ravens, bleating for a lost mother. But they will not see me. I will not be there.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

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“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: expect, expectations, hope, love, wish

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“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

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“God has had His chance to free me, and for reasons known to Him alone, He has pinned me to ill fortune, and although I have struggled, I am run through and through with disaster; I am knifed to the hilt with fate.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

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“All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

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