Missouri, Ohio, New Hampshire

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MISSOURI:  Stoner, John Williams:  “There was a softness around him, and a languor crept upon his limbs.  A sense of his own identity came upon him with a sudden force, and he felt the power of it.  He was himself, and he knew what he had been.”

OHIO:  The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison:  “Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live.”

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving:  “If you care about something you have to protect it; If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”