JoAnn

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JoAnn is Currently Reading

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The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope

by David Kherdian (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2013, historical, non-fiction, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in August 2013

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Jan 23, 2026 05:05PM

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Stitch Encyclopedia: Knitting

by Bunka Gakuen

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Jan 23, 2026 08:42AM

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Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

by Kadir Nelson

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JoAnn’s Quotes

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

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“I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

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“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights

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“Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: charlotte-bronte, fate, jane-eyre

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“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: eyre, jane

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