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nothing like sea air to make me feel alive, but this numb bubble I’m living in has made even the simplest task feel as if I’m trying to accomplish it under water. Lethargy is my new friend. My appetite has dwindled. I’ve done research on
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“Then men were not dependent upon women after all, as she had thought—women were dependent upon men. Boys were frail, boys cried, boys were tender, boys were helpless. Mary Anne knew this, because she was the eldest girl among her three young brothers, and the baby Isobel did not count at all. Men also were frail, men also cried, men also were tender, men also were helpless. Mary Anne knew this because her stepfather, Bob Farquhar, was all of these things in turn. Yet men went to work. Men made the money—or frittered it away, like her stepfather, so that there was never enough to buy clothes for the children, and her mother scraped and saved and stitched by candlelight, and often looked tired and worn. Somewhere there was injustice. Somewhere the balance had gone. “When I’m grown up I shall marry a rich man,” she said.”
― Mary Anne
― Mary Anne
“Being invisible had its advantages.”
― High Treason
― High Treason
“Joy is not gush; Joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God’s will, because the soul delights itself in God Himself.”
― Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional
― Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional
“From Chapter 1:
Isabel went into the kitchen. Their butterball of a beagle wagged his tail and peered up at her with his soulful brown eyes. He was eager to get his reward for looking cute as a button, and he knew she was a pushover.”
― To Dye For
Isabel went into the kitchen. Their butterball of a beagle wagged his tail and peered up at her with his soulful brown eyes. He was eager to get his reward for looking cute as a button, and he knew she was a pushover.”
― To Dye For
“One recommendation I venture to make, Mr. Bashforth. If ever you again approach an ugly woman in this way, bear in mind that even ugly women, conscious as they may be of their defects, have their dreams.”
― The Enchanted Cottage
― The Enchanted Cottage
Religious Books
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Do you know of any good Christian books? Feel free to recommend them even if you are the author. Fiction, nonfiction or ebooks are fine.
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For those who love a good cozy mystery while curled up on the couch with a cup of coffee/tea/cocoa and maybe a dog/cat next to them. Please be kind ...more
Mysteries and other Great Reads
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