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Jaclyn is Currently Reading

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Autobiography of Cotton

by Cristina Rivera Garza

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Bird by Bird

by Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)

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H is for Hawk

by Helen Macdonald

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Jaclyn’s Notes & Highlights

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

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I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than ...more

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A Deadly Affair

by Agatha Christie

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Nightcrawling

by Leila Mottley

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Jaclyn’s Quotes

“There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.”
― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

tags: marriage

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“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
― Libby Page, This Book Made Me Think of You

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“The right book in the hands of the right person at exactly the right moment can change their life forever.”
― Libby Page, This Book Made Me Think of You

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“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope for a cure”
― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

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“Nobody can think more highly of the matrimonial state than myself. I consider the blessing of a wife as most justly described in those discreet lines of the poet, 'Heaven's last best gift.”
― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

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