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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

The Princess of 72nd Street by Elaine Kraf

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Ally’s Notes & Highlights

I Know Your Kind: Poems by William Brewer

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Summer air. People blowing up things and celebrating.

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Ally’s Quotes

“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. —Aristophanes, Greek comic poet (c. 450–385 BCE)”
― Tom Standage, A History of the World in 6 Glasses

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“I suppose I love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.”
― Andrea Gibson

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“What does it mean to taste something and be transported to so many places at once, all of them a piece of home? To be half-elsewhere all the time, half-here and not-here. There are two sides of myself: one longing for the city, one at peace near the sea.”
― Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai

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“Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: faith, love, strength

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