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“The afterlife is one of death's best kept secrets. . . and I was living proof of that.”
― Ireland Gill

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“If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

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“You like it?” I almost sputter. Abby likes Harry Potter. That’s like saying Mr. Rogers was nice. Reece King is decent-looking. You can’t just like Harry Potter. You have to be balls-out obsessed with it.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

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“They flow above the chimneys, ride the sidewalks, slip through your jacket and shirt and breastbone and lungs, and pass out through the other side, the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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“Because of patent licensing fees, it costs $25,000 for an academic institution to license the gene for researching a common blood disorder, hereditary haemochromatosis, and up to $250,000 to license the same gene for commercial testing. At that rate, it would cost anywhere from $46.4 million (for academic institutions) to $464 million (for commercial labs) to test one person for all known genetic diseases.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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