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Dolly’s Notes & Highlights

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

19 highlights

Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection.

A Piece of the World

by Christina Baker Kline

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Hannah's Dream

by Diane Hammond

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See Dolly’s 3 books with notes and highlights…

“When you know that trees experience pain and have memories and that tree parents live together with their children, then you can no longer just chop them down and disrupt their lives with larger machines.”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

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“Who would have imagined,” he said, “when you were sentenced to life in the Metropol all those years ago, that you had just become the luckiest man in all of Russia.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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“We have to hope, Daniel was saying, that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters.”
― Ali Smith, Autumn

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“Stop. Right now. Remake your life from the inside out.”
― Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

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“The Kingdom of God is where we belong. It is home, and whether we realize it or not, I think we are all of us homesick for it.

-Originally published in The Clown in the Belfry and later in Secrets in the Dark”
― Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

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