Shari Benham

Shari’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (204)
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read‎ (249)
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Shari’s Quotes

“If love is blind so is hatred”
― Yarro Rai

tags: life, peace-making, peace-on-earth

2 likes

“Then a white flash swallowed the room.
The blast lifted her from the bed.”
― D.L. Maddox, Secrets

tags: bullying, emotionally-charged, humour, low-self-esteem, relationships, school, tense, toxic, unpredictable

45 likes

“Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

tags: action, happiness

26 likes

“Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.
Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.
We have time to grow old.
The air is full of our cries.
But habit is a great deadener.
At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.
Let him sleep on.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

tags: confusion, dead, difficult, grave, grow, habit, hole, hope, knowledge, nothing, old, sleeping, waiting, wisdom

44 likes

“Was there something … something evil …getting at Hugo? This bizarre and unwelcome thought surfaced in his mind. Were demons and evil spirits only to be found in the bible stories, or maybe this was some sort of challenge to him to deal with without help from anyone, least of all from the One who he constantly questioned and tried to understand …”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness