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One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.Fredrik Backman
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At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?Fredrik Backman
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To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it.Abby Fabiaschi
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Anyone who met him today would say, *Soldier. Fighter.* They would want him on their team. As a mother she was willing to engage in pride over fear and to admit the possibility that his sacriï¬ce was hers, too. His sacriï¬ce was something she had been able to give her country.Lea Carpenter
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I soon forgot about my bedraggled appearance. Until, that is, an old man shuffled in and propped himself, hunched and wheezing, over the check-in desk. Karen asked him if he needed assistance. “No, ” he grunted sucking on his teeth, “your wet- T-shirt librarian with the punk rock hair is helping me out just fine.Suzanne Kelman
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The ‘coons had enjoyed a real party, and my trashcan had been the piñata! They’d obviously indulged in an evening of feasting on our wares and then staggered off the property loaded up with our birdseed as a little take-home gift!Suzanne Kelman
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The face that greeted me, however, was far from welcoming, it was a miniature stick insect of a woman with wiry white hair and enormous glasses that emphasized her heavily wrinkled face. She blinked twice and looked me up and down. By the look on her face, she wasn’t that impressed with what she saw. “Who is it, Ethel?”She responded, “It’s some homeless woman. She looks like she needs money and a good wash.” And I thought I’d already reached the lowest point of my day.Suzanne Kelman
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The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.Douglas Lewis