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Jessica is currently reading

Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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“Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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“I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

tags: hope, life, love, mistakes, past, wisedom

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“You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn’t give you that right. Nothing does.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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