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Book cover for Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
She treated herself like an art project, a sculpture defined by removal: The weight. The small lines erased with Botox. Her face grew hard and angular, with hollows under her cheekbones. Her once unruly hair was heated and ironed straight, ...more
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Jonathan Safran Foer
“Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Michael Shaara
“In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that enormous, unanswerable question.”
Michael Shaara

“It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.”
William Boyd, Any Human Heart

Jonathan Safran Foer
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
Jonathan Safran Foer

Mary Ann Shaffer
“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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