Ernest Hemingway · 1952
- What it is
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It stays with you · slow and sad, in the good way
- Genre
- Classics Literary
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Never Let Me Go
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It leaves you thinking · lovely, but it stings
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1994
It stays with you · one to slow down with
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2004
It leaves you thinking · a good honest cry
The Secret Scripture
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It leaves something behind · tender until it hurts
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I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman · 1995
It leaves you thinking · the walls come in on you
Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin · 2008
Sad, and in no hurry · love hurts sometimes
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