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Toni is Currently Reading

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Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank

by Elin Hilderbrand (Goodreads Author)

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Toni’s Quotes

“Don't cry or I'll cry," my dad says. He has not historically been a crier, but he is one now, because that's how life is. You don't yet know who you'll become.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

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“But every individual question was really a version of the same existential one: People are different from me. How do I survive it?”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

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“If you're not careful, you'll end up mistaking difference for loss--which is how you lose everything.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

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“Grief is like the sound of the exhaust fan over the stove—a constant hum that recedes a little to the background over time”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

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“Life is a near-death experience. And death is a real-life one.
You just want to wake up while you still can. While the world is turning and the owls are calling and gratitude is the very air you are still breathing, because, whatever happens next, that's how lucky you are.
You are still breathing.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

tags: live-in-the-moment

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