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“For the first time I actually felt like I owned my skin, like it was me and I was it.” - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz)

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“He reminded Felix of the actors milling backstage after the matinee, with the evening performance still before them. Not fully in character, but not free of it either.” - NW (Zadie Smith)

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“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.” - Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

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“Standing in the kitchen with the receiver to my ear, I knew it wasn’t just Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins.” - The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)

‘The land about them grew bleak and barren, though once, as Thorin told them, it had been green and fair. There was little grass, and before long there was neither bush nor tree, and only broken and blackened stumps to speak of ones long vanished. They were come to the Desolation of the Dragon, and they were come at the waning of the year.’ — The Hobbit

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“How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness.” - A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)

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“Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris. Part of it was the war. The world  had ended once already and could again at any moment. The war had come and changed us by happening when everyone said it couldn’t.” - The Paris Wife (Paula McLain)

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“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.” - This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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“Because sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out.” - Lover Avenged (J.R. Ward)