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“[W]e’ve learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it.”
― Did You Ever Have a Family
― Did You Ever Have a Family

“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.”
― Exit West
― Exit West

“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline

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Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more
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