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Gilead (Gilead, #1)

by Marilynne Robinson

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“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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“the wise man celebrates what he can.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
― Clement Clarke Moore, Twas the Night Before Christmas

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“Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me.”
― Elif Shafak

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“All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve and things will go well for us, because it is not possible for the bad or the good to endure forever, and from this it follows that since the bad has lasted so long, the good is close at hand”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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