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Book cover for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Katie knew that he was the man she wanted. She’d ask nothing more than to look at him and to listen to him for the rest of her life. Then and there, she decided that those privileges were worth slaving for all her life. Maybe that decision ...more
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.”
Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

Jeannette Walls
“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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