“Too often being happy means being passive or playing it safe. There’s no skill required in happiness, no strength of character, nothing extraordinary. Its discontent that drives creation the most—passion, desire, defiance. Revolutions
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“Wouldn’t it have been wonderful, thought Woolly, if everybody’s life was like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle. Then no one person’s life would ever be an inconvenience to anyone else’s. It would just fit snugly in its very own, specially designed spot, and in so doing, would enable the whole intricate picture to become complete.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“relationship with him because she took the necessary steps to break the pattern before it broke us. And it wasn’t easy. She left him right before I turned three and my older sister turned five. We lived off beans and macaroni and cheese for two solid years. She was a single mother without a college education, raising two daughters on her own with virtually no help. But her love for us gave her the strength she needed to take that terrifying step.”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength—carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.’—Corrie ten Boom.”
― The River Is Waiting
― The River Is Waiting
“NORA AND LIBBY’S ULTIMATE READING LIST
Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev
The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin
A Thorn in the Saddle by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane
An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
The Editor by Steven Rowley
The Siren by Katherine St. John
A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Portrait of a Scotsman by Evie Dunmore
The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams
So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
Payback’s A Witch by Lana Harper
A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare”
― Book Lovers
Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev
The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin
A Thorn in the Saddle by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane
An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
The Editor by Steven Rowley
The Siren by Katherine St. John
A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Portrait of a Scotsman by Evie Dunmore
The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams
So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
Payback’s A Witch by Lana Harper
A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare”
― Book Lovers
Rhonda’s 2025 Year in Books
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