Cori

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Cori is Currently Reading

Cori is currently reading

Heavenly Tyrant (Iron Widow, #2)

by Xiran Jay Zhao (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, audiobook, fantasy, fiction, library-book, politics, sci-fi, war

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Jul 03, 2026 11:41AM

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Accomplice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #3)

by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Goodreads Author)

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"My library loan lapsed, because I really am not feeling the slow burn of this story. But I will finish it once I am able to rent it out again." — Jun 21, 2026 06:31PM

Jun 21, 2026 06:22PM

Cori’s Quotes

“But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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“I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: adulthood, childhood, children-s-books, illustrated-books

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“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.”
― Alan Cohen

tags: play, rest, work

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“To be rooted is to say, here am I nourished and here will I grow, for I have found a place where every sunrise shows me how to be more than what I was yesterday, and I need not wander to feel the wonder of my blessing.”
― Kevin Hearne, Shattered

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“I believed, and still do, that our bodies are our selves, that my soul is the voltage conducted through neurons and nerves, and that my spirit is my flesh.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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