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“She was afraid. It wasn’t a tremble of fear. It was a dark hood hanging over her head. She was meant to die. That was why she was on the Chief speeding eastward. This was her bier.”
― Dread Journey
― Dread Journey
“Books make such good friends and quiet neighbors.”
― Quiet Neighbors
― Quiet Neighbors
“Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“When one looks at the very elderly or the very ill, one forgets they're not some exotic tribe, but just ourselves at a different moment.”
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“The young are ever so; unable to believe that the decrepitude before it was ever firm young flesh or that they themselves will ever crumble.”
― Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom
― Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom
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