J

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J’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (878)
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fiction‎ (383)
audiobooks‎ (376)
history‎ (168)
memoirs‎ (147)
contemporary‎ (136)
bestsellers‎ (126)
authors-of-color‎ (116)

international‎ (89)
thriller-horror‎ (83)
young-adult‎ (80)
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celebrity‎ (65)
politics‎ (61)
crime‎ (57)
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J’s Quotes

“Ethical loneliness is what happens when wrongs are compounded by going cruelly unacknowledged.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

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“But for years, my best coping strategy has been work. I have assumed so many responsibilities and said yes to so many things. Working hard creates my own gravity. The more I work, the more I am on terra firma.”
― David Chang, Eat a Peach

tags: coping, coping-mechanism, say-yes, workaholic

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“And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

tags: autoimmune-disease, chronic-illness, chronic-illness-stigma, doctors-and-patients

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“You might think sitting with someone who is dying means you will be having big conversations about the meaning of life,” a hospice chaplain had advised me. “Wrong! Sometimes, all that’s called for is to just show up and watch Jeopardy! together.”
― Barbara Becker, Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

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“The French author Jules Renard once wrote: If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider. Wider, I would add, to every reality—not just to the happiness but to every heartache too.”
― Barbara Becker, Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

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