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Jennifer is Currently Reading

Jennifer is currently reading

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Reading for the 3rd time

read in June 2017

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Jennifer’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Murder in an Irish Castle (A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery, #12)

Murder in an Irish Castle (A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery, #12) by Verity Bright

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‘Well, what a waste of travelling time it would be if everything were like home.’

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Jennifer’s Quotes

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte

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“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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“It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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