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I'm sorry, I haven't finished. I hope to, but I just don't feel like reading any more of it. I'm more than halfway through. Some of the characters bore me, some confuse me, and some I find interesting. I love reading about the trees, but all in all,
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“Your body is away from me,
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.”
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but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.”
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“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
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“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.”
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“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
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That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
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Ruth’s 2025 Year in Books
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