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Allison is Currently Reading

Allison is currently reading

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

by Elyse Graham (Goodreads Author)

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May 10, 2026 06:34AM

Allison’s Quotes

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

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“This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

tags: broken-heart, forgetting, love

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“I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I'd always known.”
― Lorraine Zago Rosenthal, Other Words for Love

tags: breakups, relationships

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“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

tags: dream, fate, hope

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“It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.”
― Sue Grafton, J is for Judgment

tags: advice, breakups, inspirational, inspirational-love, men-and-women, realization, relationships, sex

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