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Broken Country

by Clare Leslie Hall (Goodreads Author)

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Stone Yard Devotional: A Novel by Charlotte Wood

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I’m used to it now, the waiting. An incomplete, unhurried emergence of understanding, sitting with questions that are sometimes never answered.

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Celia’s Quotes

“Nana didn’t say much, just a few judicious wisecracks. Hmm. You’ll have to either get a smaller arse or a bigger skirt, Eileen.”
― Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

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“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
― George Burns

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“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

tags: books, reading

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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

tags: dark-humor

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“Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafes on the Strand; it was lost by those who wished the past were present, and loathed by those who wished the present past.”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

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