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Maria is Currently Reading

Maria is currently reading

We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions

by Glennon Doyle (Goodreads Author)

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Fantastic Cities: A Coloring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined

by Steve McDonald (Goodreads Author)

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The Spiritual Atheist's Guide to Mystical Experiences and How to Have Them

by Soren Sorensen (Goodreads Author)

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Maria’s Quotes

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, reading, travel

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“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

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“those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, bookstores

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“Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung...”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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