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Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds

by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto (Goodreads Author)

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skketch’s Notes & Highlights

We Burned So Bright by T.J. Klune

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Veterinarians have some of the highest suicide rates out of any profession. Did you know that? Vets and vets: veterans and veterinarians. Same boat.”

Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

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Theo of Golden

by Allen Levi

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skketch’s Quotes

“Beneath them, Sune asks him to carve the only message he can bring himself to say:

You run on ahead.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

tags: inspirational-life

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“I like giving life. Sowing, watering, harvesting. And starting again every year. I like life just as it is today. Bathed in sunshine. I like being at the essence of things.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

tags: inspirational-attitude

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“Léonine had long been filling the garden with her presence, as if she had brought the Mediterranean to the little vegetable garden of the cemetery in which she was buried. That day, I knew that she was within each little miracle the soil produced.”
― Valérie Perrin

tags: thoughtful-reflection

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“Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.” Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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“Today, what matters for her, for me, is making flowers grow.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

tags: mother-s-love-for-child

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