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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

White Rose, Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey

The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

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bound-together‎ (11)
romance‎ (10)
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childrens‎ (8)

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Ellen’s Notes & Highlights

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

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He taught her something new about friendship: it picked right back up where you’d left off, as if you hadn’t been apart at all.

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Ellen’s Quotes

“Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.”
― Marc Brown

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“She understood that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow any rules. Time does not heal it. Rather time insists on passing and as it does, grief changes but does not go away.”
― Ann Hood, The Obituary Writer

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“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: loneliness, passion

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“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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