Ruth

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Ruth is Currently Reading

Ruth is currently reading

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Jan 11, 2026 08:54PM

Ruth’s Notes & Highlights

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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“I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings, that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection.

I giggled a little reading this part. So well read hahaha, but lets remember that Mary Shelley didn't have goodreads or the internet to share her excitement on the books she had read.

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Ruth’s Quotes

“Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present. Money, status, all the vanities the preacher of Ecclesiastes described, hold so little interest: a chasing after wind, indeed.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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“Alas, there is a day coming when many shall pray loudly, “Lord, Lord, open to us,” but all too late; when many shall cry to the rocks to fall on them and the hills to-cover them, who would never cry to God. In all affection, I warn you, beware lest this be the end of your soul. Salvation is very near you. Do not lose heaven for want of asking.”
― J.C. Ryle, A Call To Prayer

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