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Oakville Public Library
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Added Dec 09, 2017
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- Because structure and maintenance and pattern, and broccoli, are what sanity consists of.
- It's time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.
The Theory of HummingbirdsThe Theory of Hummingbirds, Book
by Kadarusman, MichelleBook - 2017Book, 2017
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Added Dec 09, 2017
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Added Nov 12, 2017
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- Jared hadn't thought anything could be worse than almost being eaten by otters, but he was wrong.
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Added Nov 12, 2017
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Added Oct 04, 2017
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- The H's of chair legs upturned on the tables seemed to spell out Go home, but no one was moving fast.
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Added Aug 26, 2017
Frontier CityFrontier City, BookToronto on the Verge of Greatness
by Micallef, ShawnBook - 2016Book, 2016
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Added Aug 22, 2017
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Added Aug 09, 2017
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Added Aug 09, 2017
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- Gil Coleman looked down from the first-floor window of the bookshop and saw his dead wife standing on the pavement below.
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Added Jul 17, 2017
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- Rose had a rush of nausea, and then a quick, exquisite sensation of her skin tightening and cooling and her flesh clinging to a vibrant bony web.
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Added Jul 11, 2017
Conversations With FriendsConversations With Friends, BookA Novel
by Rooney, SallyBook - 2017Book, 2017
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Added Jul 03, 2017
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- Lights sparkled on the river and buses ran past like boxes of light, carrying faces in the windows.
A General Theory of OblivionA General Theory of Oblivion, Book
by Agualusa, José EduardoBook - 2015Book, 2015
Added Jun 26, 2017
Quotations
- If, while we are asleep, we can dream of sleeping, can we then, when awake, awaken within a more lucid reality?
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Added Jun 26, 2017
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Added Jun 26, 2017
The Burgess ShaleThe Burgess Shale, BookThe Canadian Writing Landscape of the 1960s
by Atwood, MargaretBook - 2017Book, 2017
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Added Jun 04, 2017
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- Today's poets flower on a subsoil of their dead predecessors.
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Added May 28, 2017
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- I see my feet walking and I wonder if I am the one moving them.
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Added May 14, 2017
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Added May 08, 2017
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- Love is a ticket, whatever love is. / And to where I could not say.
- Walk straight past the water trough, / she says, do not engage the moss.
- How will you spend your courage, / Her life asks my life.
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Added Apr 25, 2017
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Added Apr 25, 2017
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- I can't believe it myself. I've finished this story that I thought would never end.
- Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them.
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Added Apr 16, 2017
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- My friends we love // It is two kinds of lost / that I'm lost in
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Added Apr 14, 2017
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- Of course / the inevitable / rupture in my chest / from the heart's opening. // Courage- / stay in my arms / until / you can't.
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Added Apr 08, 2017
Those Who Leave and Those Who StayThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Book
by Ferrante, ElenaBook - 2014Book, 2014
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Added Mar 28, 2017
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- The day will come when I reduce myself to diagrams, I'll become a perforated tape and you won't find me anymore.
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