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Connie is Currently Reading

Connie is currently reading

Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

by Clare Pooley (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, british, contemporary, excellent-audio-book, lgbt

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Connie’s Notes & Highlights

The Winter Guest by Pam Jenoff

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Now, it is not death I fear; each of us will get there soon enough. But the sound takes me back to earlier times, when sirens meant only danger and saving ourselves mattered.

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Connie’s Quotes

“Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

tags: self

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“Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

tags: deceit, truth

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“My life was a glass of water, and she was a single drop of food coloring.”
― Tyler Feder, Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir

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“How long is it reasonable to drag out your recovery from grief until you're expected to get your act together again?
Or maybe that's where I'm going wrong. You don't recover from it. There is no "healed" moment. You just absorb it into your new life, somehow, and go from there.”
― Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

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“... I hadn't understood that people you loved could do things you didn't love. And, still, you could keep loving them.”
― Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane

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