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Deborah is Currently Reading

Deborah Black is currently reading

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

by Kate Beaton

bookshelves: currently-reading, canadian, graphic-novel, memoir

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The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (The Annotated Books)

by Virginia Woolf

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2022, british, fiction, historical, literary, women, classic

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These Precious Days: Essays

by Ann Patchett

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2022, american, books-about-writers, essay, nonfiction

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Deborah’s Quotes

“He does not always remain bent over the
pages; he often leans back and closes
his eyes over a line he has been reading
again, and its meaning spreads through
his blood.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: slow-reading-poetry

76 likes

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

4491 likes

“When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: myths

199 likes

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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“With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

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