WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING? ASKING FOR AT CHRISTMAS TIME? “Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” -Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close “‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’” -Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” -John Steinbeck, East of Eden “It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.” -W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” -Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre “I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.” -Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner “It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.” -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone “One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” -Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices
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