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Harriet Beecher Stowe was a member of a remarkable family that exerted enormous influence over the minds and the souls of several generations of Americans.
“We plan our days, but we don’t control them.”
― Before We Were Yours
― Before We Were Yours
“I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it.”
― Before We Were Yours
― Before We Were Yours
“In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don’t intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.”
― Before We Were Yours
― Before We Were Yours
“Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand. No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step, stumbling around in something that doesn’t suit the moment.”
― Before We Were Yours
― Before We Were Yours
“I drop her on the cot and turn away and grab my hair and pull until it hurts. I want to pull all of it out. Every single piece. I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don’t. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.”
― Before We Were Yours
― Before We Were Yours
Jill’s 2025 Year in Books
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