Colleen

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Colleen is Currently Reading

Colleen is currently reading

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

by Will Guidara

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026-reads, book-club-read, non-fiction

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Colleen’s Quotes

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"At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.”
― Robert Godden

tags: christmas, comfort, coziness, family, holidays, tea

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“It seems likely that whatever people called the season, what they did to celebrate it has never changed all that much: at heart it has always been what it is today, a festival to brighten the darkest time of the year.”
― Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

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“Life isn’t about the big win. It’s about the person you call first to tell that you’ve won.”
― Vi Keeland, Sex, Not Love

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“I have a small phobia about being alone with women," he said smoothly.
"So I always come with him," Patricia said. "Always."
"Ah." Dear God, where do You hide the normal people? Love, Emmaline”
― Kristan Higgins, In Your Dreams

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“It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.”
― Maureen Corrigan, So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures

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