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A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

by Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author)

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We the Living

by Ayn Rand

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Ice Candy Man

by Bapsi Sidhwa

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“No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

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“Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

tags: elegance, philosophy, simplicity

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“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

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