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“When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.”

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Susan Cheever is an American author born on July 31, 1943. Her works are known for their deep character portrayals and rich emotional expression, primarily focusing on themes such as family, love, and faith. more

“Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.”

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Author:Laird Barron

“A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.”

Pay Fine Mouths Tradition Mark Collections Polished Homage Sinister Blazing Debut Stylish

Author:Laird Barron

“A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra’s Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning pages and begging for a sequel.”

Age Action Romance Secret Novel Mystery Dangerous Reader Pages Invisible Coming Of Age Begging Sequels

Author:Laurie Faria Stolarz

“First we must see that we cannot will ourselves to be open because openness is our very nature. Any tiny residue of willing, of wanting to be open takes us away from what we are. Willing never goes beyond willing. So the only way to be free from this circle is to glimpse the truth that openness is the egoless state, that it is here and now”

Way Firsts States Willing Tiny Circles Openness Glimpse Here And Now

Book:I Am

Source: I Am

“These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.”

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Author:Patricia Hampl

“There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.”

Car Adventure Verge Lure Open Road

Author:Dan Chaon

“You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.”

Waiting Childhood Your Children Here And There

Author:Anthony Doerr

“The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate is sorrow”

Mind Soul Pain Hate Lost Sorrow Resistance Abandoned

Author:Yi Mun-yol

“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”

Love Speak Change Humble Live By Narcissism Be Humble

Author:Sigmund Freud

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