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“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
“It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man - the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated off-spring - you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one.
I look at him and see the baby I held in my arms, dewing besotted, unable to believe that I'd created another human being. I see the toddler, reaching for my hand, the schoolboy weeping tears of fury after being bullied by some other child. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history.”
― Me Before You
I look at him and see the baby I held in my arms, dewing besotted, unable to believe that I'd created another human being. I see the toddler, reaching for my hand, the schoolboy weeping tears of fury after being bullied by some other child. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history.”
― Me Before You
Marlene’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Marlene’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
304 books
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20 friends
601 books
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104 friends
2,206 books
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38 friends
1,487 books
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86 friends
725 books
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100 friends
382 books
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30 friends
188 books
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48 friends
745 books
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218 friends
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