Maren Syer

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Maren’s Quotes

“Venice would not be who she is without her music lingering around every narrow calle and corner.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

tags: beautiful-writing, cultural-fiction, historical-fiction, italian-history, music, setting-as-character, venice

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“There had been over four thousand Jewish children penned in the Vel’ d’Hiv’, aged between two and twelve. Most of the children were French, born in France. None of them came back from Auschwitz.”
― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key

16 likes

“We imagine our paths are freely chosen. But there is a need to account for biology and history, the random intercession of other people, culture, race, and the mystery of the transcendent. ”
― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege

tags: big-questions, book-club, criminal-justice, human-behavior, memoir, narrative-nonfiction, nonfiction-reads, race-and-culture, social-context, thought-provoking

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“In the case of our bodies, we cannot sew on additional organs or devices, but people can easily use the existing ‘standard equipment’ of their body, which is ‘delivered as standard from the manufacturer’ but which has huge built-in capabilities for ‘upgrading.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: everydaymysticism, meditationpractice, mindbodyspirit, philosophicalfiction, spiritualjourney, thepythagorean, upgradeyourlife

149 likes