Rudolf Orvar Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“That is what this city is. The party at the end of the world.” ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

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“I like it better here where I can sit just quietly and smell the flowers.” ― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

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“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.” ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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“He was home, and home was Jude.” ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“Stepping back too far makes me dizzy—my memory, like something punched, reeling about with its hands clapped over its face.” ― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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“Where does music go when it’s not playing?—she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die.” ― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

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“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“If he be Mr. Hyde,” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.” ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles