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Selection #34
Careless People
by Sarah Wynn-Williams
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"But leopards don’t change their spots. The DNA of the company remains the same. And the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become."
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Selection #33
Strangers
by Belle Burden
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"...a form of joy set in —joy born of replacing the not knowing with knowing, the nub of worry with clarity, the lack of control with control..."
Watching a new wave of excitement, fresh interpretations, and love for a show that captured my heart and my mind years ago has been such a joy. See the proshot in theaters if you can #Hadestown #WaitForMe
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Selection #32
Heart the Lover
by Lily King
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"But I'm not good at saying that I feel hurt or forgotten or rejected. There had been no room for that growing up. I'm more skilled at burying those emotions. Or hiding them in my fiction."
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Selection #31
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
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"In the silence, Leni wondered if one person could ever really save another, or if it was the kind of thing you had to do for yourself."
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Selection #30
These Letters End in Tears
by Musih Tedji Xaviere
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"Years and years have gone by and I'm still stuck in my memories of you, stuck in this place between misery and sweet recollection."
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Selection #29
Homebodies
by Tembe Denton-Hurst
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"I only knew that no one else had made her feel the things she felt right now."
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Selection #28
The Bright Years
by Sarah Damoff
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"I can love someone in a stranglehold with a disease, but I will not love a liar."
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Selection #27
Atomic Habits
by James Clear
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"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems."
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Selection #26
Big Swiss
by Jen Beagin
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"It dawned on her slowly, a little painfully, that what she'd been looking for inside the dream house, and what she'd found, was her own appetite. She'd been famished all these years without knowing it."
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Selection #25
The God of the Woods
by Liz Moore
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"She explained. It came from the Greek god Pan: the god of the woods. He liked to trick people, to confuse and disorient them until they lost their bearings, and their minds."
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Selection #24
Eternal Summer
by Franziska Gänsler
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"The endless summer not only fueled my fear of fires, it increased my sense of helplessness."
It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are indeed part of the problem
#Vote #California
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Selection #23
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
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"But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us."
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Selection #21
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
"Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all."
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Selection #18
Everything is Tuberculosis
by John Green
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"We can do and be so much for each other—but only when we see one another in our full humanity, not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world."
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Selection #15
Life, & Death, & Giants by Ron Rindo
"Sometimes, it isn’t where you’re going, but rather what you’re running from that determines where you find yourself."
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Selection #13
A Sharp Endless Need by Marisa Crane
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"After all, it's hard to be the authority on yourself when the whole world is leading you astray. And sometimes you need someone to remind you who you are and who you want."
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Selection #8
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
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