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Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

by Brené Brown (Goodreads Author)

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The Night in Question by Susan Fletcher

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We think, for so long, that old age will never find us. We feel that we, as individuals, might somehow be exempt from it, that we might be given some sort of ticket that allows us to sidestep death, as one might a manhole cover, and carry ...more

The Bones Beneath My Skin

by T.J. Klune

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Finding Grace

by Loretta Rothschild

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“That's an extra cruelty that cancer brings, Ted thought, when you're waiting for everything to go back to normal again. Until one day you realize that the illness has become the new normal.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“You can’t love someone out of addiction. All the oceans are the tears of those who have tried”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“You don’t wish for happiness when you have lost the love of your life, because you can’t even imagine ever feeling happy again. All you wish for is peace, calm, a long night’s sleep. You dream of nothing but being able to forgive time for making us old. For not letting us stay on a pier with our best friends. For letting summers end.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“That’s why rich adults hate the sort of thing that Louisa paints on the walls of buildings, not because they love walls, but because they hate the fact that there are beautiful things that are free.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“People say that anxiety is fear for no reason, but Ted’s brain is very helpful when it comes to providing suggestions. Once he read a book that said that people with neuropsychiatric disorders need to “make friends with their brain,” but Ted and Ted’s brain are not friends, they’re classmates, forced to do a group assignment called “life” together. And it’s not going great.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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