Amanda Del Brocco

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Amanda is Currently Reading

Amanda Del Brocco is currently reading

The Lion Women of Tehran

by Marjan Kamali (Goodreads Author)

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Amanda’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 (The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, #1)

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 (The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, #1) by Beth Brower

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I look in this mirror and recognise myself less now than when I was a child. I suppose that happens when you’ve grown up and still don’t understand your place in the world.

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Amanda’s Quotes

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

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“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics

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“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life

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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: god, humor, life

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