“When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.”
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

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“There is a trail of anger flowing through my bloodline, from my great-grandmother, to my grandmother, to my mother, to me.”
- The Harpy by Megan Hunter

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“Dead is the most alone you can be.”
- Ghostly by Audrey Niffenegger

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“External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.”
- The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

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“I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.”
- The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier

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“Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spread over a hundred years, no one notices...American outrage is always for show. It has a shelf life.”
- The Trees by Percival Everett

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“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
- Herzog by Saul Bellow

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“Thinking isn’t what we do best when it’s all we’re meant to do.”
- A Therapeutic Journey by Alain de Botton

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"He was like a pet lamb, grown too large for the house but whom the household had forgotten to put out of doors."
- The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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“When you're alone in the dark, impossible things grow bones and flesh.”
- Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis

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“At first I saw you everywhere.
Now only in certain things,
at longer intervals.”
- The Poems of Louise Glück

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“The customers believe in sitting down; if there are vacant chairs, no one ever stands at the bar.”
- The Old House at Home by Joseph Mitchell in 'The 40s' [New Yorker Collection]

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“Faith means believing in what you do even when it does not bear visible fruit.”
- The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee

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“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness.”
- Why I Write by George Orwell

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“It’s the small things that keep a marriage going: things that don’t cost a lot but that tell the other person you love them and don’t ask for anything in return.”
- The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex

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“As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things”
- A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Death had begun to upset him lately, the insult of it - violent death that was. And violent death was what had come to eighty-five-year-old Sibyl Emily Firmwell, no matter how peacefully she'd sat in her chair."
- Sheep's Clothing by Celia Dale

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“Evil is not limited by what you personally can imagine.”
- Brotherless Night by V.V Ganeshananthan

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“Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.”
- Engleby by Sebastian Faulks

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“There can be no progress without confrontation”
- Love, Poverty and War by Christopher Hitchens

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