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“The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace
“Here's the thing: the act of reading changes your life, sometimes in large ways, sometimes in small ways, but every book you read asks you to move outside of yourself and your own experience to consider the lives of others. So I can't identify a particular book that altered my life, but I do know that the act of reading has pushed me to engage more deeply with the world (real and imagined), and I'm grateful for that.”
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“And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on YOU to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.
Bernadette”
― Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Bernadette”
― Where'd You Go, Bernadette
“You are a scoundrel," she whispered furiously.
"Yes," he agreed. "I'm thinking of starting a Society of Gentlemen Scoundrels."
"You're millennia too late. It already exists and is called the patriarchy.”
― The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
"Yes," he agreed. "I'm thinking of starting a Society of Gentlemen Scoundrels."
"You're millennia too late. It already exists and is called the patriarchy.”
― The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
“The only balm to sorrow is memory; the only salve for the pain of losing someone to death is acknowledging the life that existed before.”
― Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
― Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
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