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Amie is Currently Reading

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In the Body of the World

by Eve Ensler

bookshelves: anxiety-depression, feminist, memoirs-autobiography-biography, mental-health, nonfiction, sa, self-help, sexuality, social-justice, currently-reading

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Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing

by Reba Riley (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: memoirs-autobiography-biography, mental-health, nonfiction, religion-spirituality, self-help, currently-reading

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Down to a Science (I Heart Sapphfic Pride Collection, #1)

by Haley Cass (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: erotic, fiction, lgbtq, currently-reading

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Amie’s Quotes

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

tags: greatness

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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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