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Due mesi dopo (Hercule Poirot, #16)

by Agatha Christie

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La donna senza memoria (Isabelle Bonnet #7)

by Pierre Martin

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Digressione

by Gian Marco Griffi

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“She was entirely unaware of the protocol when becoming acquainted with a man’s rampant sex organ. Did she reach out and give it a handshake? Touch one finger to the tip? Bid it a polite howdoyoudo?”
― Tessa Dare, Romancing the Duke

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“Non tutti i sognatori sono uomini liberi, ma tutti gli uomini liberi sono sognatori.”
― Lucia Vastano

tags: dreams, freedom

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“It made Alice realize how much of life was full of empty stuff, objects longed for because the hope of them made your small life seem bigger, better, brighter.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

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“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

tags: abuse, depression, social-norms

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“Moments never stay, whether or not you ask them, they do not care, no moment cares, and the ones you wish could stretch out like a hammock for you to lie in, well, those moments leave the quickest and take everything good with them, little burglars, those moments, those hours, those days you loved the most.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

tags: holding-on, moments, nostalgia

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