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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

by William L. Shirer

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by J.J. Abrams

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“You're my family! You were family before any of them. I've missed you even when I didn't remember you. Everything I've done since losing you has been about getting back to you. And I know I've left you behind before for other families, but not this time. I can't do it again.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

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“I was glad I had been brilliant, but I did not want to think of anything complex. I wanted to go to sleep.”
― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

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“This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change.”
― Kiersten White, Mister Magic

tags: change, flaws, growing-up, perfection

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“We are expected to take life seriously, yet life rarely takes us seriously. Therefore, we ought to laugh at every moment lest we allow life to take the final laugh.”
― Ashtyn Newbold, The Captain's Confidant

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