Kerry

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Kerry.

https://www.goodreads.com/kerrbearlib

Book cover for Coming Home: A Memoir of Healing, Hope and Possibility
Janine Hightower, personal trainer, was a kinesiologist at the Boston Medical Center Cardiac Rehab program where a veteran of mine from the VA went for his cardiac rehab. He introduced us to each other after I left the VA. He thought she ...more
Loading...
Shana Abe
“I would not have the world be cruel to you,” she emphasized. “I would not have Vincent Astor be cruel to you. But if—when—those things happen, I would not have you be cruel in return. Kinder hearts are stronger, I think.”
Shana Abe, The Second Mrs. Astor

Jesmyn Ward
“Success is not the result of making one good choice, of taking one step. Real success requires step, after step, after step, after step. It requires choice after choice, it demands life-long education and passion and commitment and persistence and hunger and patience.”
Jesmyn Ward, Navigate Your Stars

Shana Abe
“The nature of hope is curious to me. It can sustain us through the darkest of times. It can buoy us above every reasonable expectation of despair. Yet hope can shatter us just as readily as the darkness can. People refer to it as false hope, but I think that’s misleading, because the feeling itself is painfully true. It is a treacherous hope, more precisely. A dangerous one.”
Shana Abe, The Second Mrs. Astor

C.S. Lewis
“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Shana Abe
“Marriage is work, enormous work, because it’s a living entity that needs everlasting attention. It will push you and bend you and test you, and if you’re not prepared for any of that, it will shatter you.”
Shana Abe, The Second Mrs. Astor

year in books
Jess
924 books | 44 friends

MrsHarv...
1,318 books | 2,027 friends

Kelsey ...
1,287 books | 36 friends

Kiki La...
4,659 books | 12 friends

Melody
65 books | 60 friends

Cynthia
2,627 books | 141 friends

Natalie
612 books | 57 friends

Tegan M...
1,160 books | 99 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Kerry

Lists liked by Kerry