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Roxanne is Currently Reading

Roxanne is currently reading

Jog On: How Running Saved My Life

by Bella Mackie

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May 18, 2026 09:04AM

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Against the Loveless World

by Susan Abulhawa (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 10, 2026 11:19AM

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I Decided to Live as Myself

by Kim Suhyun

bookshelves: currently-reading, self-help, in-translation

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Mar 10, 2026 11:18AM

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Roxanne’s Quotes

“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

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“When you get up every day, I want you to remind yourself that tomorrow will be better than today. That you are a person of value. That you are important.”
― Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

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“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

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“You’re overthinking it.’ ‘I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

tags: adulthood, aging, growing-up, selfhood

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