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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Harriet thought it was wrong not to believe in God. It lacked humility. In her opinion, believing in God was required, like brushing teeth or wearing underwear. Certainly, all decent people believed in God – even indecent people, like her husband, believed in God. God is why they.”

351. “Harriet thought it was wrong not to believe in God. It lacked humility. In her opinion, believing in God was required, like brushing teeth or wearing underwear. Certainly, all decent people believed in God – even indecent people, like her husband, believed in God. God is why they.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Hello, Edna,” she said, “and thanks for your question. The answer is no; I don’t have a favorite grace. In fact, I don’t say grace at all.”

352. “Hello, Edna,” she said, “and thanks for your question. The answer is no; I don’t have a favorite grace. In fact, I don’t say grace at all.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “You’ve had so many, well, so many men dropping by at the oddest hours.” She cleared her throat. “It’s work,” Elizabeth said as she coaxed Madeline to take the bottle. “Whatever you want to call it,” Mrs. Sloane said.”

353. “You’ve had so many, well, so many men dropping by at the oddest hours.” She cleared her throat. “It’s work,” Elizabeth said as she coaxed Madeline to take the bottle. “Whatever you want to call it,” Mrs. Sloane said.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Calvin had believed persistence was innate; Elizabeth argued it was learned. Six-Thirty, on the other hand, thought persistence was intelligence.”

354. “Calvin had believed persistence was innate; Elizabeth argued it was learned. Six-Thirty, on the other hand, thought persistence was intelligence.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “She ended every show with her signature line: “Children, set the table. Your mother needs a moment to herself.”

355. “She ended every show with her signature line: “Children, set the table. Your mother needs a moment to herself.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “What’s all this?” he finally said, pointing to her bandaged fingers. “Oh. I’m a rower. Trying to be.” “Are you any good?” “No.” “Then why are you doing it?” “I’m not sure.” He shook his head. “Boy, do I get that.”

356. “What’s all this?” he finally said, pointing to her bandaged fingers. “Oh. I’m a rower. Trying to be.” “Are you any good?” “No.” “Then why are you doing it?” “I’m not sure.” He shook his head. “Boy, do I get that.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Every day she found parenthood like taking a test for which she had not studied.”

357. “Every day she found parenthood like taking a test for which she had not studied.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Because I can’t risk having my scientific contributions submerged beneath your name,” she clarified.”

358. “Because I can’t risk having my scientific contributions submerged beneath your name,” she clarified.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “You know what?” Elizabeth said, meeting Six-Thirty on the stairs just outside the building. “We’ll just keep this between ourselves. She’s legally Mad, but we’ll call her Madeline and no one will be the wiser.” Legally Mad, Six-Thirty thought. What could possibly go wrong?”

359. “You know what?” Elizabeth said, meeting Six-Thirty on the stairs just outside the building. “We’ll just keep this between ourselves. She’s legally Mad, but we’ll call her Madeline and no one will be the wiser.” Legally Mad, Six-Thirty thought. What could possibly go wrong?”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Life wasn’t a hypothesis one could test and retest without consequence-something always crashed eventually.”

360. “Life wasn’t a hypothesis one could test and retest without consequence-something always crashed eventually.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Because in a man’s mind, why else would a woman mention bombykol on a Friday evening in an empty parking lot when the soft breeze was coming out of the west carrying the scent of her extremely expensive shampoo directly into his nasal cavity unless it was all part of a plot to get more beakers?”

361. “Because in a man’s mind, why else would a woman mention bombykol on a Friday evening in an empty parking lot when the soft breeze was coming out of the west carrying the scent of her extremely expensive shampoo directly into his nasal cavity unless it was all part of a plot to get more beakers?”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “But why is saying what you think so rare?” “Because there are consequences,” Harriet said.”

362. “But why is saying what you think so rare?” “Because there are consequences,” Harriet said.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “This was called ignoring. Or wait, no. Ignorance.”

363. “This was called ignoring. Or wait, no. Ignorance.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Which, he thought, as he grabbed his tennis shoes, had to be the very definition of love. To actually want to change for someone else.”

364. “Which, he thought, as he grabbed his tennis shoes, had to be the very definition of love. To actually want to change for someone else.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “But you realize,” she said carefully, as if not to embarrass him further, “that faith isn’t based on religion. Right?”

365. “But you realize,” she said carefully, as if not to embarrass him further, “that faith isn’t based on religion. Right?”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Oh right,” Frask mocked. “Same old song. I’d heard the investor came back, and shazam! Here you are. I’ll say one thing for you: you’re predictable. At least you’re chasing a richer man this time. Although, between us, isn’t he a bit old for you?”

366. “Oh right,” Frask mocked. “Same old song. I’d heard the investor came back, and shazam! Here you are. I’ll say one thing for you: you’re predictable. At least you’re chasing a richer man this time. Although, between us, isn’t he a bit old for you?”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “But the truth is, we are very much responsible for the badness in the world. And we have the power to fix it.”

367. “But the truth is, we are very much responsible for the badness in the world. And we have the power to fix it.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “She was stiff, unforgiving. Truth be told, he felt a little sorry for her. No one turned this mean without having been a victim of the same.”

368. “She was stiff, unforgiving. Truth be told, he felt a little sorry for her. No one turned this mean without having been a victim of the same.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Nor did he faint when she accidentally backed into him at the sink and he caught a whiff of her hair. He didn’t even know hair could smell like that – as if it had been washed in a basin of flowers.”

369. “Nor did he faint when she accidentally backed into him at the sink and he caught a whiff of her hair. He didn’t even know hair could smell like that – as if it had been washed in a basin of flowers.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “And that’s because early readers are only good at something others will eventually be good at, too. So being first isn’t special – it’s just annoying.”

370. “And that’s because early readers are only good at something others will eventually be good at, too. So being first isn’t special – it’s just annoying.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Elizabeth opened every show by insisting that cooking wasn’t easy and that the next thirty minutes might very well be torturous.”

371. “Elizabeth opened every show by insisting that cooking wasn’t easy and that the next thirty minutes might very well be torturous.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Both require patience, endurance, strength, and commitment. And neither allow us to see where we’re going – only where we’ve been.”

372. “Both require patience, endurance, strength, and commitment. And neither allow us to see where we’re going – only where we’ve been.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “When I was a kid,” Calvin said quietly, “I used to tell myself every day was new. That anything could happen.”

373. “When I was a kid,” Calvin said quietly, “I used to tell myself every day was new. That anything could happen.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “No. You need to understand this, Calvin. People like my father preach love but are filled with hate. Anyone.”

374. “No. You need to understand this, Calvin. People like my father preach love but are filled with hate. Anyone.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “The truth is, I’m not good with children,” he’d told the archbishop. “Widows, prostitutes – that’s where I really shine.”

375. “The truth is, I’m not good with children,” he’d told the archbishop. “Widows, prostitutes – that’s where I really shine.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “She was like a practical priest, someone to whom one could confess things – fears, hopes, mistakes – and expect in return, not a simpleton’s recipe for prayers and beads, or a psychologist’s standard “And how does that make you feel?” runaround, but actual wisdom. How to get on with the business at hand. How to survive.”

376. “She was like a practical priest, someone to whom one could confess things – fears, hopes, mistakes – and expect in return, not a simpleton’s recipe for prayers and beads, or a psychologist’s standard “And how does that make you feel?” runaround, but actual wisdom. How to get on with the business at hand. How to survive.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Don’t you know how being fired works? Step one: never tell anyone the truth – claim you won the lottery, inherited a cattle ranch in Wyoming, got a huge offer in New York, that sort of thing. Step two: drink to excess until you figure out what to do. Jesus. It’s like you’re not familiar with TV’s tribal ways!”

377. “Don’t you know how being fired works? Step one: never tell anyone the truth – claim you won the lottery, inherited a cattle ranch in Wyoming, got a huge offer in New York, that sort of thing. Step two: drink to excess until you figure out what to do. Jesus. It’s like you’re not familiar with TV’s tribal ways!”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “What a pretty picture!” he heard a mother say earlier that week as she looked down on her child’s ugly, violent scribble. Human parents, he’d noted, had a tendency to lie to their children.”

378. “What a pretty picture!” he heard a mother say earlier that week as she looked down on her child’s ugly, violent scribble. Human parents, he’d noted, had a tendency to lie to their children.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Do surgeons smile during appendectomies? No. Would you want them to? No. Cooking, like surgery, requires concentration.”

379. “Do surgeons smile during appendectomies? No. Would you want them to? No. Cooking, like surgery, requires concentration.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Ever since you brought your little Satan home, I’ve told myself, Go by and check on her.”

380. “Ever since you brought your little Satan home, I’ve told myself, Go by and check on her.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “There will be other men, Miss Zott. Maybe not as famous or as influential as Mr. Evans, but men all the same.”

381. “There will be other men, Miss Zott. Maybe not as famous or as influential as Mr. Evans, but men all the same.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “The next day – Tuesday – Mudford’s tree assignment revelations were the talk of the school: Madeline had been born out of wedlock; Amanda didn’t have a mother; Tommy Dixon’s father was an alcoholic. Not that any of the children themselves cared about these facts, but Mudford, her mean eyes wet with excitement, ate up the data like a hungry virus, then fed it to the other mothers, who spread it around school like frosting.”

382. “The next day – Tuesday – Mudford’s tree assignment revelations were the talk of the school: Madeline had been born out of wedlock; Amanda didn’t have a mother; Tommy Dixon’s father was an alcoholic. Not that any of the children themselves cared about these facts, but Mudford, her mean eyes wet with excitement, ate up the data like a hungry virus, then fed it to the other mothers, who spread it around school like frosting.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “He doesn’t scare me, he disgusts me.”

383. “He doesn’t scare me, he disgusts me.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “But now he had her and tomorrow she’d be in close proximity to an altar and he hypothesized such proximity could revise her perception of marriage. This theory even had a scientific name: associative interference. “No,” she said quickly.”

384. “But now he had her and tomorrow she’d be in close proximity to an altar and he hypothesized such proximity could revise her perception of marriage. This theory even had a scientific name: associative interference. “No,” she said quickly.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Elizabeth shook her head. When it came to equality, 1952 was a real disappointment.”

385. “Elizabeth shook her head. When it came to equality, 1952 was a real disappointment.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “The problem with being a minister was how many times a day he had to lie.”

386. “The problem with being a minister was how many times a day he had to lie.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “And thus he had to live with the knowledge that not only had this other father discarded him – without even meeting him – but that chemistry itself had spawned the grudge he could neither hide nor outgrow.”

387. “And thus he had to live with the knowledge that not only had this other father discarded him – without even meeting him – but that chemistry itself had spawned the grudge he could neither hide nor outgrow.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Although his childish scrawl was often impossible to read, his sorrow sang.”

388. “Although his childish scrawl was often impossible to read, his sorrow sang.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Five minutes later, Roth was riding next to Elizabeth Zott in the front seat of her old blue Plymouth, the dog and the photographer relegated to the back. “He doesn’t bite, does he?” the photographer asked as he crammed himself against the window. “All dogs have the ability to bite,” she said over her shoulder. “Just as all humans have the ability to cause harm. The trick is to act in a reasonable way so that harm becomes unnecessary.”

389. “Five minutes later, Roth was riding next to Elizabeth Zott in the front seat of her old blue Plymouth, the dog and the photographer relegated to the back. “He doesn’t bite, does he?” the photographer asked as he crammed himself against the window. “All dogs have the ability to bite,” she said over her shoulder. “Just as all humans have the ability to cause harm. The trick is to act in a reasonable way so that harm becomes unnecessary.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Mrs. Mudford clicked her teeth. “You misunderstand me, Mrs. Zott. Children interrupt; that I can deal with. What I can’t deal with is a child who wants to change the discussion to civil rights. This is kindergarten, not The Huntley-Brinkley Report.”

390. “Mrs. Mudford clicked her teeth. “You misunderstand me, Mrs. Zott. Children interrupt; that I can deal with. What I can’t deal with is a child who wants to change the discussion to civil rights. This is kindergarten, not The Huntley-Brinkley Report.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Obviously, he knew how to find KCTV. Anyone who’d read The Incredible Journey would understand how un-incredible it was that dogs could find just about anything. He used to marvel at the needle in the haystack story Elizabeth had once read to him – marvel because what was so hard about finding a needle in a haystack? The scent of high carbon steel wire was unmistakable.”

391. “Obviously, he knew how to find KCTV. Anyone who’d read The Incredible Journey would understand how un-incredible it was that dogs could find just about anything. He used to marvel at the needle in the haystack story Elizabeth had once read to him – marvel because what was so hard about finding a needle in a haystack? The scent of high carbon steel wire was unmistakable.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Humans need reassurance,” Wakely wrote back. “They need to know others survived the hard times.”

392. “Humans need reassurance,” Wakely wrote back. “They need to know others survived the hard times.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Obviously, she had to go; no question about it. Hastings Research Institute had standards.”

393. “Obviously, she had to go; no question about it. Hastings Research Institute had standards.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “To protect your villagers from certain death, always slash.”

394. “To protect your villagers from certain death, always slash.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “And while Elizabeth wasn’t entirely keen on the idea – she was a research chemist – she took the job for the usual reasons: it paid more and she had a child to support.”

395. “And while Elizabeth wasn’t entirely keen on the idea – she was a research chemist – she took the job for the usual reasons: it paid more and she had a child to support.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “Well,” she said, “she keeps repeating how by Saturday night, she’ll finally be Mrs. Peter Dickman. As if changing her name is the finish line for a race she’s been in since she was six.”

396. “Well,” she said, “she keeps repeating how by Saturday night, she’ll finally be Mrs. Peter Dickman. As if changing her name is the finish line for a race she’s been in since she was six.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “This time, though, we’ll make sure everyone knows you earned your place. You’re a bright girl, Lizzie. It’s possible.”

397. “This time, though, we’ll make sure everyone knows you earned your place. You’re a bright girl, Lizzie. It’s possible.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “There was an aquamarine water-filled quarry below; she’d hit it like a missile. Her toes.”

398. “There was an aquamarine water-filled quarry below; she’d hit it like a missile. Her toes.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “What a mess devotion was.”

399. “What a mess devotion was.”

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Bonnie Garmus Quote: “She supposed it took a certain type of skill to be able to say exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time.”

400. “She supposed it took a certain type of skill to be able to say exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time.”

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