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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)

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Jess said: " This woman is insane and I love her. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll scream at her throughout for being so stupid and unprepared, and you'll tell yourself you'd never be crazy enough to try hiking the PCT too, but there will always be a little piece ...more "

Nov 07, 2021 06:30PM · see review

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

by Stephen Graham Jones (Goodreads Author)

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“It’s not that smart people aren’t capable of believing in cultish things; instead, says Shermer, it’s that smart people are better at “defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

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“How liberating it is to be water, fluid and pervious, to flow like love itself—to accept and allow the things we cannot change while moving forward, with love, in the ways we can.”
― Stephanie Catudal, Everything All at Once: A Memoir

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“How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them, first, as human?”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

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“This isn't the ending I dreamed of, sure. But when you realize failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

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“Having passion for work alone might be the ultimate goal of all, because the work is the only thing that is really, truly yours. You’re entitled only to your labor. You’re not entitled to the fruit of your labor. The universe guarantees no results.”
― Des Linden, Choosing to Run: A Memoir

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