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The Secret Garden
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
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The Native Commissioner
“If you could read the secret history of your enemies, you should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities.”
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The Hunger Games
“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
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The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
“And who decided which people wore the striped pyjamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
“People could behave how they liked, but Allan considered that in general it was quite unnecessary to be grumpy if you had the chance not to.”
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The Book Thief
“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
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The Little Paris Book Shop
“Reading—an endless journey; a long, indeed never-ending journey that made one more temperate as well as more loving and kind.”
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Slip Of A Fish
“Practise losing small things, so you’re better at losing bigger things.”
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Truly Madly Guilty
“There is no special protection when you cross that invisible line from your ordinary life to that parallel world where tragedies happen.”