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The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.


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Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.



You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.



It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.



You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.



You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.



Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.

Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.



She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.

She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.



Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.

Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.



There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides.

There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides.





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