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“what is grief but love persevering”
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“Habit is a vain and treacherous goddess. She lets nothing disrupt her rule. She smothers one desire after another: the desire to travel, the desire for a better job or a new love. She stops us from living as we would like, because habit prevents us from asking ourselves whether we continue to enjoy doing what we do.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”
― A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
― A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“But that's just it; I can either focus on what I have lost, or what I have gained, and I choose the latter.”
― Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
― Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
“The world’s rulers should be forced to take a reader’s license. Only when they have read five thousand—no, make that ten thousand—books will they be anywhere near qualified to understand humans and how they behave. I often felt better, no longer so bad, fake and unfaithful, when Jean read me bits where good people did nasty things out of love or necessity or their hunger for life.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
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Laurie’s 2025 Year in Books
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