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Brigette is Currently Reading

Brigette is currently reading

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong

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Feb 17, 2026 08:41AM

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman

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Feb 23, 2025 09:36AM

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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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Brigette’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith

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I don’t have much patience with “therapy” that clings to the past—because going backwards is not about creating change. It’s about understanding. One of my earliest clients used to spend hours telling me, “Marshall, you don’t understand. ...more

It's good to be reflective, but looking back doesn't empower. It's only when looking forward and setting clear goals and working to get there that I've felt I truly have control over my future. That's when I feel motivated and inspired. It's a choice. A friend told me the other day "We write our life and destiny with our decisions."

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Brigette’s Quotes

“It is love. But I will not stay.
My father
was a long dark fairytale too.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

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“Once you've seen how broken someone is it's like seeing them naked—you can't look at them the same anymore.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: brokenness, honesty, openness, pain, perceptions, transparency

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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Neil Pasricha, The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything

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“It was a fine thing indeed, Luna thought, being eleven. She loved the symmetry of it, and the lack of symmetry. Eleven was a number that was visually even, but functionally not - it looked one way and behaved in quite another. Just like most eleven-year-olds, or so she assumed.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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“Don’t let things sit for too long. It’s always tempting to just ignore the things that aren’t actually on fire just at the moment, but then you’re also committing to spend your time putting out fires.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

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