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1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

by Haruki Murakami

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A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1)

by Vikram Seth

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The Ragged Edge of Night

by Olivia Hawker

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Lora said: " What an amazing story! What an amazing person! What an amazing legacy to pass down through the generations. And what an important message for now-to stand up for what is right in any way you can. Don't be silent. Don't follow. Lead quietly and make a What an amazing story! What an amazing person! What an amazing legacy to pass down through the generations. And what an important message for now-to stand up for what is right in any way you can. Don't be silent. Don't follow. Lead quietly and make a difference.

"She can't release the past as easily as that. Who among us can. What has gone before drags behind. As we move through our lives our workaday habits-we trail our ghostly wakes..."

"Did the Lord make bad things?...people who hurt others. He is growing up too fast for boy his age, but that is the way of children raised among suffering-like seedlings sprouted in a dark corner. They shoot up thin and spindly, grasping and pale. Who can grow strong roots when the very earth is unsafe? When we are starved for light?...This boy has learned already that some thoughts are too dangerous to speak aloud...Why did you make us to live among such times? Why should a child fear to speak such truth?...No, my boy, the Lord does not make men do evil things to one another, for the Lord gave us the right to choose. Whether we do good or evil it is our own decision and our own responsibility."

"Strange how quickly warmth vacates the world...The work lifts his spirits when spirits can be lifted, but darkness still catches him now and then. That's the nature of darkness. It comes at the end of every day, predicable as the striking of a clock's chime...You can never quite escape the night...How are we to know when our lives are good and when we are blessed, if we have no sorrow-no deprivation for comparison's sake. There is, he believes, a purpose to all the Creator's ways. But the mind and heart of God are the understanding of man. You can know your suffering serves a purpose-that the suffering of others play some inscrutable part in the grand drama of creation, but knowing brings you little comfort...It can shake your faith."

"How to tell them? How to make them see? In a world that praises the unfeeling killer as the height of masculinity, we celebrate the man who bristles with arms-who paves for himself a path of violence, but there are other men-other lives-other ways for a man to be. What of the teachers and the priests? What of the doctors and artists who heal and create where other men destroy? What of our fathers? And how do I tell them...that the soldiers they revere sweat beneath their helmets, and wake screaming in the night. How do I tell them that the party leaves their soldiers little choice or none at all. By force...commits such acts that destroy their souls, as surely as a bullet destroys flesh. By force the Fuhrer manufacturers ghosts that will haunt forever those who serve them...It's most manly of all to do kindness to one another...You don't want to hurt anyone or see harm done to your fellow men."

"They have ground her down so thoroughly that she can't imagine Germany without Hitler. She no longer remembers this world without war. This is how they succeed-one person at a time-one frightened mother beaten down, too exhausted to exist, and then another, and another."

Be loud. Make noise by acting and not allowing the hate to pervade your personal space. ...more "

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Norwegian by Night (Sigrid Ødegård #1) by Derek B. Miller

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Without a future, the mind turned back in on itself. That’s not dementia. One might even say it’s the only rational response to the inevitable.

Beyond the Crushing Waves

by Bronwen Pratley

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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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