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  1. David Sedaris _ Me Talk Pretty One Day

    My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species. 'I think it was very nice of Paul to give me this vase,' she once said, arranging a bouquet of wildflowers into the skull-shaped bong my brother had left on the kitchen table. 'It's nontraditional, but that's the Rooster's way. He's a free spirit, and we're lucky to have him.
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  2. Louisa Thomsen Brits _ The Book of Hygge: The Danish

    Home is an emotional state, a place in the imagination where feelings of security, belonging, placement, family, protection, memory and personal history abide. -Thomas Moore
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  3. Pete Hautman _ Otherwood

    is reality simply a dream we share?"
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  4. J.D. Salinger _ Franny and Zooey

    He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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  5. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That's what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts.
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  6. Laura Dave _ The Divorce Party

    People don't break up because someone's family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.
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  7. Karen Armstrong _ Twelve Steps to a

    {T}he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. {68}
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  8. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala _ My Nine Lives: Chapters of a

    She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.
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  9. Chuck Palahniuk _ Diary

    Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.
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  10. Zadie Smith _ NW

    Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away. Mothers are left stranded, madly holding a lump of London clay, some grass, some white tubers, a dandelion, a fat worm passing the world through itself.
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  11. Lois Lowry _ A Summer to Die

    Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.
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  12. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Case-Book of Sherlock

    A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
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