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“Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.”

Book:Handle with Care

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Handle with Care

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Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is an American best-selling author known for her emotionally rich and engaging novels. Her works often revolve around family, legal, and moral dilemmas, and are highly appreciated by readers. more

“He passed his hands over some of the fine embossed bindings as he thought, I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.”

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Book:Death Watch

Source: Death Watch

“What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the earth, my arms on the handlebars and on my arms my head, rocking and abandoned. It is indeed a delporable sight, a deplorable example, for the people, who so need to be encouraged, in their bitter toil, and to have before their eyes manifestations of strength only, of courage and joy, without which they might collapse, at the end of the day, and roll on the ground.”

People Example Separation Beckett Identifying With Others

Book:Molloy

Source: Molloy

“…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…”

People Louisa May Alcott Jo S Boys

Book:Jo's Boys

Source: Jo's Boys

“You don't scare a man who sees people as cockroaches.”

People Scare Cockroaches Man With Guts

Book:Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

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