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“In illuminating the pathway to safety, the lighthouse offers us a chance to move beyond the fears and uncertainty of the storm and toward the peace and calm of safe harbor. So it is with the people who most impact our lives. For while lighthouses of the sea have stood watch for millennia, the most powerful and enduring lighthouses are the human ones.”
― The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World
― The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World
“Dad, I need to talk to you about something that’s been bothering me for a long time. Remember when you and mom used to have fights and she would leave? I wanted her to stay and when I knew she wasn’t, I wanted to go with her. But, she would say, ‘stay with your father, you’re a boy.’ It’s a feeling of abandonment that I’ve never been able to shake. I had the same feeling when Sarah left me.”
― Treacherous Estate
― Treacherous Estate
“This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.”
― The Red Queen
― The Red Queen
“LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?”
― Harriet the Spy
― Harriet the Spy
“Here’s a 165-year old but still fitting comment on public officials who are so sure they’re right that they’ll drive over a cliff rather than compromise:
“Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt – are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: a Novel without a Hero (1848).
The author’s middle name really was “Makepeace.” As the quote shows, he disliked those who would not.”
― Vanity Fair
“Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt – are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: a Novel without a Hero (1848).
The author’s middle name really was “Makepeace.” As the quote shows, he disliked those who would not.”
― Vanity Fair
Nida’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nida’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
130 books
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630 friends
108 books
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51 friends
55 books
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33 friends
2 books
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38 friends
141 books
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30 friends
72 books
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7 friends
93 books
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15 friends
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