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“These gifts are meant to be shared.”
― Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery

“Her hand was calloused and the nails ragged and broken; it felt heavy in his, like responsibility.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter

“All through the hotel, beds scraped, feet thumped to the floor. The future dead, rising to forestall.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter

“Biology sees right and wrong as the same color in different light.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time.”
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra

“as if putting the brash colors together subdued each one, so the overall feel was elegant and lovely.”
― Angie Kim, Miracle Creek

“Looking at Main Street’s row of shops reminded Young of her favorite market in Seoul, its legendary produce row—spinach green, pepper red, beet purple, persimmon orange. From its description, she would’ve thought it garish, but it was the opposite”
― Angie Kim, Miracle Creek

“In a way, he supposed, it was inevitable for immigrants to become child versions of themselves, stripped of their verbal fluency and, with it, a layer of their competence and maturity.”
― Angie Kim, Miracle Creek

“to Americans, verbiage was an inherent good, akin to kindness or courage. They loved words—the more, the longer, and more quickly said, the smarter and more impressive.”
― Angie Kim, Miracle Creek

“A portrait reveals the inner life, the secret life of the person. That’s what painters try to capture. But it’s one thing to hunt it down in someone else, and a whole other thing to turn the gun on ourselves.”
― Louise Penny, A Great Reckoning

“I’ve been around men all my life. I don’t see how you all live with those things. They take more time and energy than a woman puts into her hair.”
― Margaret Verble, Maud's Line

“They wanted to “fall” in love—that was the American way—whereas the idea of falling anywhere, with anyone, had never once appealed to Lina.”
― Lucy Tan, What We Were Promised