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![Natalie Babbitt](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1226361832i/1954._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of the summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.”
― Tuck Everlasting
― Tuck Everlasting
![Michelle Zauner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1634383887i/18916582._UY200_CR77,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I envied and feared my mother’s ability to keep matters private, as every secret I tried to hold close ate away at me. She possessed a rare talent for keeping secrets, even from us. She did not need anyone. She could surprise you with how little she needed you. All those years she instructed me to save 10 percent of myself like she did, I never knew it meant she had also been keeping a part of herself from me too.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
![Fredrik Backman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1493098924i/6485178._UX200_CR0,47,200,200_.jpg)
“And time is a curious thing. Most of us only live for the time that lies right ahead of us. A few days, weeks, years. One of the most painful moments in a person's life probably comes with the insight that an age has been reached when there is more to look back on than ahead. And when time no longer lies ahead of one, other things have to be lived for. Memories, perhaps.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
![Michelle Zauner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1634383887i/18916582._UY200_CR77,0,200,200_.jpg)
“But my parents were worldly in their own ways. They had seen much of the world and had tasted what it had to offer. What they lacked in high culture, they made up for by spending their hard-earned money on the finest of delicacies. My childhood was rich with flavor—blood sausage, fish intestines, caviar. They loved good food, to make it, to seek it, to share it, and I was an honorary guest at their table.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
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