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Beth Foote
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“No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.”
“I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.”
― Moloka'i
― Moloka'i
“No land is more beautiful, and therefore more powerful. That is what I believe in, Aouli. I believe in Hawai'i. I believe in the land."
-Haleola”
― Moloka'i
-Haleola”
― Moloka'i
“...she bid me to look out on the lawn at the leper girls who were running on lame feet, playing croquet with crippled hands.
"There is beauty," she said, "in the least beautiful of things.”
― Moloka'i
"There is beauty," she said, "in the least beautiful of things.”
― Moloka'i
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
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with your one wild and precious life?”
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“Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.”
― Moloka'i
― Moloka'i
Beth’s 2025 Year in Books
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Poetry, Religion, Spirituality, and Travel
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