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  1. Paul Beatty _ The Sellout

    In neighborhoods like the oneI grew up in, places that are poor in proxy but rich in rhetoric, the hollies have a saying - I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.
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  2. Jhumpa Lahiri _ In Other Words

    Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.
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  3. Ian McEwan _ Atonement

    When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, of a family line, connection. All around him, men were walking silently with their thoughts, reforming their lives, making resolutions. If I ever get out of this lot... They could never be counted, the dreamed-up children, mentally conceived on the walk into Dunkirk, and later made flesh.
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  4. Elisabeth Elliot _ Keep a Quiet Heart

    ​A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace. Elisabeth Elliot
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  5. Matthew Pearl _ The Last Bookaneer

    Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on...
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  6. Robert Kurson _ Pirate Hunters: Treasure,

    Stories were heirlooms in these parts.
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ The Penelopiad

    the gods often mumble
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    We have learned to see the world in gasps.
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  9. Marian Keyes _ Anybody Out There?

    Devereaux is going with our pitch." "Hey, that's just great," I said superperkily. "Wendell's or mine?" "Yours." "But you want to fire me. So fire me." "We can't fire you. They loved you. The head guy, Leonard Daly, thought you were, I quote, 'a great kid, very courageous' and a natural to do a whispering campaign. He said you had believability." "That's too bad." "Why? You're not quitting!" I thought about it. "Not if you don't want me to. Do you?" Go on, say it. 298 ♥elavanilla♥ "No." "No what?" "No, we don't want you to quit." "Ten grand more, two assistants, and charcoal suits. Take it or leave it." Ariella swallowed. "Okay to the money, okay to the assistants, but I can't green-light charcoal suits. Formula Twelve is Brazilian, we need carnival colors." "Charcoal suits or I'm gone." "Orange." "Charcoal." "Orange." "Charcoal." "Okay, charcoal." It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinely don't care whether you have it or not. "Right," I said. "I'm giving myself the rest of the day off.
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  10. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Historian

    Ao sairmos para o anoitecer dourado das ruas bizantinas, refleti como era estranho que, mesmo sob as circunstâncias mais extraordinárias, durante episódios mais perturbadores da vida, nos lugares mais distantes de casa e de tudo que nos é familiar, possam existir esses momentos de incontestável alegria.
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  11. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Doctor Moreau

    My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.
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  12. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry _ The Little Prince

    And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
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