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Mio, My Son

by Astrid Lindgren

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If It Bleeds (Holly Gibney #2)

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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War Horse (War Horse, #1)

by Michael Morpurgo

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Vanessa’s Quotes

“But like you, I was made carefully, by a God who loved what He saw. Like you, I want a friend.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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“If we’re going to become kinder, that process has to include taking ourselves seriously—as doers, as accomplishers, as dreamers. We have to do that, to be our best selves.”
― George Saunders, Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness

tags: best-self, biggest-regret, growing-old, kindness, self-improvement, selflessness

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“The legend of my mom is that she can’t be stopped. Not when you hit her. Not when a whole country full of goons puts her in a cage. Not even if you make her poor and try to kill her slowly in the little-by-little poison of sadness. And the legend is true. I think because she’s fixed her eyes on something beyond the rivers of blood, to a beautiful place on the other side. How else would anybody do it?”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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“That you are not mine to possess, that you are not mine to craft and shape, that you are a gift to me, means that you can also be a divine presence to me. When you call to me in your need, that is God's call to me as well. The space I give you to grow and flourish becomes also the space for my own growth and flourishing.”
― Natalie Carnes, Motherhood: A Confession

tags: childhood, divine, emmanuel, grace, growth, motherhood, parenthood

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“Dear reader, you have to understand the point of all these stories. What they add up to. Schererazade was trying to make the king human again. She made him love life by showing him all of it, the funny parts about poop, the dangerous parts with demons, even the boring parts about what makes marriages last.

Little by little, he began to feel the joy and sadness of others.

He became less immune, less numb, because of the stories.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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