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Kendra Bean
https://www.goodreads.com/kendrabean
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― P.S. I Love You
― P.S. I Love You
“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
― Essays, First Series
― Essays, First Series
Memoirs on Adversity
— 202 members
— last activity May 02, 2022 12:32PM
This is a group for people who enjoy reading memoirs/biographies/autobiographies about people who have overcome great adversity in their lifetime.
Memoirs and Biographies We Love
— 1371 members
— last activity May 11, 2026 07:31AM
A place to share memoirs, biographies, autobiographies (and maybe even fiction-based-in-reality) that you have enjoyed!
Kendra’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kendra’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Science, and Suspense
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