February 2012
5 posts
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“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else,...”
– EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE, JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER.
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“I think we’re made up of all these different pieces and every time someone...”
– SAVING FRANCESCA, MELINA MARCHETTA.
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“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”
– THE BOOK OF TOMORROW, CECELIA AHERN.
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“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.”
– THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, JOHN GREEN.
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“Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold...”
– PAINT IT BLACK, JANET FITCH.
January 2012
8 posts
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“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– CHOKE, CHUCK PALAHNIUK.
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“Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no...”
– SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE, KURT VONNEGUT.
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“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
– SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE, KURT VONNEGUT.
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“I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill...”
– A BAG OF BONES, STEPHEN KING.
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“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn’t real. I know that,...”
– NIGHT SHIFT, STEPHEN KING.
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“Maybe I’m dreaming you. Maybe you’re dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each...”
– THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE, AUDREY NIFFENEGGER.
December 2011
5 posts
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“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get—a cold sick...”
– NORTHERN LIGHTS, JENNIFER DONNELLY.
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“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there...”
– THE GREAT GATSBY, F. SCOTT FITZGERALD.
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“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am...”
– GONE WITH THE WIND, MARGARET MITCHELL.
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“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a...”
– MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, ARTHUR GOLDEN.
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“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that...”
– THE BLUE SWORD, ROBIN MCKINLEY.
November 2011
10 posts
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“I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer...”
– MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, ARTHUR GOLDEN.
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“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think...”
– THE KITE RUNNER, KHALED HOSSEINI.
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“Still though, I think if you’re not self-obsessed, you’re probably...”
– A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF A STAGGERING GENIUS, DAVE EGGERS.
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“I lie to myself all the time, but I never believe me.”
– THE OUTSIDERS, S.E. HINTON.
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“I watched him walk away with sickness in my heart - though it was a pleasing...”
– MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, ARTHUR GOLDEN.
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“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his...”
– THE GREAT GATSBY, F. SCOTT FITZGERALD.
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“It makes me angry sometimes, it’s a visceral thing—how you come to...”
– BLACK WATER, JOYCE CAROL OATES.
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“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought...”
– THE BELL JAR, SYLVIA PLATH.
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“Wouldn’t that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle...”
– LITTLE BEE, CHRIS CLEAVE.
October 2011
6 posts
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“It seemed like someone was always leaving someone, like that’s the way the world...”
– LENA, JACQUELINE WOODSON.
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“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love—loving the loving of things...”
– EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED, JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER.
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“At the end, all that’s left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that’s why I’ve...”
– THE HISTORY OF LOVE, NICOLE KRAUSS.
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“Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for....”
– LITTLE BEE, CHRIS CLEAVE.
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“I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.”
– GONE WITH THE WIND, MARGARET MITCHELL.
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“In the midst of evil you want to be a good man. You want decency. You want...”
– THE THINGS THEY CARRIED, TIM O’BRIEN.
September 2011
5 posts
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“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse...”
– NORTHERN LIGHTS, JENNIFER DONNELLY.
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“I was dying, of course, but then we all are. Every day, in perfect increments, I...”
– HOW I LIVE NOW, MEG ROSOFF.
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“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right...”
– THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, J.D. SALINGER.
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“Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.”
– GONE WITH THE WIND, MARGARET MITCHELL.
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“I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it —...”
– WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD, E.M. FORSTER.
August 2011
4 posts
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“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else,...”
– EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE, JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER.
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“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance...”
– WUTHERING HEIGHTS, EMILY BRONTE.
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“The sadness of my independence sinks deep into my blood. It rushes through my...”
– THE SWEET FAR THING, LIBBA BRAY.
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“No one actually needs another person or another person’s love to survive....”
– ELSEWHERE, GABRIELLE ZEVIN.
July 2011
6 posts
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“It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury...”
– THE KITE RUNNER, KHALED HOSSEINI.
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“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand...”
– PETER PAN, J.M. BARRIE.
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“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
– HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE, J.K. ROWLING.
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“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we...”
– HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, J.K. ROWLING.
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“GOD: I own you like I own the caves.
THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison....”
– HOW WE ARE HUNGRY, DAVE EGGERS.
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“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, “I sometimes think that...”
– BLIND WILLOW, HARUKI MURAKAMI.
June 2011
7 posts
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“The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, through malice or...”
– THE SHADOW OF THE WIND, CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON.