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Description
Do we love across time? Or in spite of it? A developer has slated an ancient Abenaki Indian burial ground for a strip mall, and now strange happenings have the inhabitants of tiny Comtosook, Vermont, talking of supernatural forces at work. Ross Wakeman is a ghost hunter who's never seen a... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“Shelby loved words, but she would be the first to tell you they had a habit of letting you down. Most of the time, the words that were not written were the one you needed most”
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“...she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces back together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before fall”
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“True love is like ghost, which everybody talks about and few have seen”
François, duc de la Rochefoucauld. Maxim 76 -
“Before you could grab onto something else, you had to let go”
Ross Wakeman -
“...as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly”
Cecilia Beaumont Pike -
“A princess in an ivory tower, that's what I am. But if the prince knew, at heart, that I am a toad, would he fight so hard to keep me?”
Cecilia Beaumont Pike -
“What good was eternity, when you outlived everyone you loved?”
Az Thompson -
“Don't try so hard to be me... when all I'm trying to be is someone else.”
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“People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.”
Az Thompson
First Sentence
Ross Wakeman succeeded the first time he killed himself, but not the second or the third.
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- Jodi Picoult (Author)
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