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The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

by Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)

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The Pull of the Stars

by Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)

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Louisa’s Quotes

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

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“The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

tags: 19th-century, feminism, louisa-may-alcott, women

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“It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.”
― Bruce Barton

tags: adversity, bruce-barton, storm

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“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth

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“They have not considered that memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.”
― Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra

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