Ry

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“I begin to think that not everyone suffers in the same way; that not everyone, in fact, suffers. Not from the same things, at any rate. And in a way this is what made us possible, you and me.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

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“Books can be mirrors, too, offering a reflection of our worst selves for appraisal; lessons tucked between the pages, just waiting to be learned.”
― Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are

tags: insightful

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“If my investigation into my mother’s past had taught me anything, it was that no one can really understand the whole of a person. In many ways, my mother, my father—the people I was closest to, the people who meant the most to me—were strangers. Beautiful strangers.”
― Elizabeth Klehfoth, All These Beautiful Strangers

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“You don’t stop doing a puzzle when you find two pieces that fit; you build around them, and the whole jigsaw hangs together better.”
― Heather Cocks, The Heir Affair

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“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

tags: dystopian, inspirational, making-a-difference

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