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Mary’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Lost Art of Mixing (The School of Essential Ingredients, #2)

The Lost Art of Mixing (The School of Essential Ingredients, #2) by Erica Bauermeister

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Lillian’s love for her kitchen was the radiant gratitude of an artist for a space where imagination moves without obstacles, the small, quiet happiness of finding a home, even if the other people in it are passing through—maybe even a bit ...more

Against the Loveless World

by Susan Abulhawa

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Inheritors

by Asako Serizawa

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Mary’s Quotes

“The Waverley sisters hadn't been close as children, but they were as thick as thieves now, the way adult siblings often are, the moment they realize that family is actually a choice.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

tags: autumn, first-frost, lost-lake, sarah-addison-allen

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“There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

tags: love, trees

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“History, too often, has been told from only certain perspectives. This is not good enough. History is a collective phenomenon. It can only be told through a chorus of voices. And that chorus must make room for new voices over time.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

tags: collective, history, perspective, voices

11 likes

“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: life-lessons

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