Oh My Stars (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• Violet Mathers: main character
• Judd Mathers: Viola's father - mean to her
• Erlene Mathers: Violet's mother
• RaeAnn: Violet's friend at the factory
• Kjel Chelmers: befriended everyone - met Violet when the train crashed

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• “And Violet? Who took in the homely one-armed gal? Only the man who was to become her world, her breath, her reason for being, her light, her hope, her wide-opened and multicolored everything.It sure made a person believe in bus travel.”

• “Of course you don't get to be my age without learning that "Why?" is the million-dollar question - the who-what-where-when-and-how questions reporters try to answer are a piece of cake compared to the why. If you're able to explain the why, you're able to explain everything, and when's the last time you were that smart?”

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• “"Didn't you guys hear?" Violet asked. "There's a war going on."Kjel shook his head. "Always worrying about the details."”

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• “Life is full of mystery, Violet. There is no way we can understand one-billionth, one-trillionth, of all that makes up this world and beyond. That’s what faith is for. It holds you up when everything is conspiring to push you down.”

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• “The trouble is, when a person’s blessed with beauty, sometimes they forget it’s a blessing and instead think it’s a privilege, and unfortunately I think Berit has come to expect the same privilege across the board.”

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• It’s funny, the family heirlooms we pass down to kids—bone china, jewelry, cash, real estate—but we can’t bequeath them the really important things, like friends. The really important things they have to find themselves.

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• Just think about that for a minute. Why are most of us unable to follow this deceptively simple directive, because we hardly love ourselves.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• North Dakota: Violet stops here when the bus she is riding crashes into a tree.
• Mount Crawford, Kentucky: Violet's childhood home

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lorna Landvik (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary