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Briana’s Notes & Highlights

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The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1) by Nita Prose

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I’ll never understand it—why people find the truth more shocking than lies.

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Briana’s Quotes

“I don’t think it’s ever too late to try, and I am always learning.”
― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

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“writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise”
― Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

tags: humour

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“When I was a child, luxury was fur coats, evening dresses, and villas by the sea. Later on, I thought it meant leading the life of an intellectual. Now I feel that it is also being able to live out a passion for a man or a woman.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

tags: love-passion

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“What we call the imagination consists of fragments of memory that lack any clear connection with one another.”
― Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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“Anyone in their right mind would never undertake to write a novel in the first place. Given the circumstances, therefore, it is perfectly acceptable to be deranged as long as you are aware of that fact.”
― Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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