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“It’s weird how easily you can get to know someone from the traces they leave behind when they go.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“The thing about getting old, Bar,” Toot had told me, “is that you’re the same person inside.” I remember her eyes studying me through her thick bifocals, as if to make sure I was paying attention. “You’re trapped in this doggone contraption that starts falling apart. But it’s still you. You understand?” I did now.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Have you ever looked forward to reading a book so much you can’t actually start it?”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip