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A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides

by Gisèle Pelicot

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The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

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Book cover for Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class by Rob Henderson

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When adults let children down, children learn to let themselves down.

Amber’s Quotes

“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

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“But the books brought me things. This is my point. They made me feel less alone.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

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“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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“This is why old people seem distant and distracted, he thought. We aren’t living in the past; the past is living in us.”
― Patrick Ryan, Buckeye

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