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by Susie Luo (Goodreads Author)

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Carol’s Quotes

“Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It’s in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.”
― Adriana Trigiani, The Shoemaker's Wife

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“If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help?”
― Adriana Trigiani, The Shoemaker's Wife

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“And then sometimes we become one of those people and are amazed, not by our own strength but by that indomitable ability to slog through adversity, which looks like strength from the outside and just feels like every day when it’s happening to you.”
― Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life

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