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Jess is Currently Reading

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First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)

by B.K. Borison (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 14, 2026 06:01AM

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Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle, #3)

by Tracy Deonn (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 07, 2026 11:30AM

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Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

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Feb 01, 2026 06:12PM

“I’ve changed my mind. You have changed my mind, red. I fall asleep thinking of you, and before my eyes are even open in the morning, you’re already in my thoughts. My days feel incomplete if I don’t have my dose of you, even if it’s just a ...more

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Jess’s Quotes

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: apothegm, optimism

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“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

tags: heartfelt

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“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley

tags: books

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“Books are extremely dangerous; they make people think.”
― Antonio Iturbe, The Librarian of Auschwitz

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“Throughout history, all dictators, tyrants, and oppressors, whatever their ideology—whether Aryan, African, Asian, Arab, Slav, or any other racial background; whether defenders of popular revolutions, or the privileges of the upper classes, or God’s mandate, or martial law—have had one thing in common: the vicious persecution of the written word. Books are extremely dangerous; they make people think.”
― Antonio Iturbe, The Librarian of Auschwitz

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