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“Hope is often misunderstood. People tend to think that it is simply passive wishful thinking: I hope something will happen but I’m not going to do anything about it. This is indeed the opposite of real hope, which requires action and engagement.”
― The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
― The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
“forgiveness is how we unchain ourselves from the past.”
― The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
― The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
“Solitude: it's become my trade. As it requires a certain discipline, it's a condition I try to perfect. And yet it plagues me, it weighs on me in spite of my knowing it so well.”
― Whereabouts
― Whereabouts
“One learns by thinking about writing, and by talking
about writing-but primarily through writing.”
― A Poetry Handbook
about writing-but primarily through writing.”
― A Poetry Handbook
“Intimacy could distort one's vantage, that much was true. Sometimes trying to see the whole of a person could be like describing a painting with your nose pressed to the canvas, though my husband would have argued that I hadn't wanted to see from a different angle, hadn't wanted to step back.”
― I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
― I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
Andrea’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Andrea’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Chick-lit, Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, History, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, and Young-adult
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