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The Wonder

by Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)

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Cursed Daughters

by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Goodreads Author)

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Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

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LaBae’s Quotes

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: friendship, love

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“For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.”
― Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire : A Plant'S-Eye View of the World

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“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: humor, seriousness

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“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
― Aristotle

tags: solitude

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“I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

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