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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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— Mar 14, 2019 11:45AM

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Jennifer’s Notes & Highlights

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

4 highlights

One lick less. One lick less. One lick less

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Jessica

You didn’t highlight “my mother is a fish”?

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Jennifer’s Quotes

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: happiness, inspiration, life

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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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“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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“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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