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The Giver (The Giver, #1)

by Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)

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The Good Liar: A Novel

by Denise Mina (Goodreads Author)

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Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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how all the little successes I’d totted up so happily at college fizzled to nothing outside the slick marble and plate-glass fronts along Madison Avenue.)

My Friends

by Fredrik Backman

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The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

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“Love, he assured her, inexorably burns itself out, or with distance is pulled up by the roots.”
― Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

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“The other women rejected their suitors outright, because, they said, they had made this tedious voyage in order to be free and rich, not to become an unpaid servant to the first beggar who asked them to marry.”
― Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

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“Tao Chi’en, however, felt that he was living in a paradise of greedy, materialistic, and impatient people whose obsession was to get rich quick.”
― Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

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“People with original ideas always end up being considered mad”
― Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

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“She had left Chile with the purpose of finding her lover and becoming his slave forever, believing that was the way to extinguish her thirst to submit and her hidden wish for possession, but now she doubted that she could give up those new wings beginning to sprout on her shoulders.”
― Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

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