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hayls 🐴 is Currently Reading

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Cherry Baby

by Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, american-lit

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Apr 26, 2026 06:04AM

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A Woman

by Sibilla Aleramo

bookshelves: currently-reading, feminism, other-european

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Feb 09, 2026 01:09AM

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People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia

by Grace Karskens

bookshelves: australian-history, currently-reading, first-nations

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Sep 14, 2025 04:24PM

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hayls 🐴’s Notes & Highlights

Foster by Claire Keegan

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Her hands are like my mother’s hands but there is something else in them too, something I have never felt before and have no name for.

hayls 🐴’s Quotes

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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“And this is it. This is the life we get here on earth. We get to give away what we receive. We get to believe in each other. We get to forgive and be forgiven. We get to love imperfectly. And we never know what effect it will have for years to come. And all of it…all of it is completely worth it.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

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“I hate that this is God’s economy. That the salvation of my enemy is tied up in my own. Which is why I sometimes say that the Gospel is like, the worst good news I’ve ever heard in my life.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good

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“In ancient Greek, the root of demon means "to throw apart." That which causes us to fracture, to become less whole, is demonic. ... I like to think that when Jesus sent the disciples to cast out demons in his name, he intended for them to look with so much love upon those who had become fractured that their neglected pieces returned to the center of their being.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good

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“Our scars are part of our story, but they are not its conclusion. The past is ours and will always be a part of us, and yet it is not all there is. It’s a process, moving from wounds to scars to grief to showing those scars. It takes time, and maybe therapy, and maybe being vulnerable in community, and maybe working through the twelve steps, and maybe making a lot of mistakes, and maybe experiencing a tiny bit of joy.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good

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