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Dream Count

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Ties by Domenico Starnone

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Ties is a novel full of containers, both literal and symbolic. In spite of them, things go missing.

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“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

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“Being privileged doesn't mean that you are always wrong and people without privilege are always right. It means that there is a good chance you are missing a few very important pieces of the puzzle.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

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“Or perhaps it is a matter of those despised parts of our natures that are normally frittered away as harmless foibles giving rise in times of war to monsters.”
― Kanan Makiya, The Rope

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“Love springs from the ability to prefer imperfection over perfection.”
― Rein Raud, Vend

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“Hating, after all, was a drier form of drowning.”
― Yewande Omotoso, The Woman Next Door

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