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Kristin is Currently Reading

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The Compound

by Aisling Rawle

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Dec 27, 2025 12:30PM

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The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)

by Herman Wouk

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Oct 24, 2025 02:42AM

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LETTERS OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR THE HABIT OF BEING

by SELECTED & EDITED BY SALLY FITZGERALD

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“Do we emphasize behavior over character? Because good behavior won’t guarantee anything. If they don’t love Jesus and people, it matters zero if they remain virgins and don’t say the F-word. We must shepherd their hearts, not just their hemlines. Jesus operates beyond the tidy boundaries of good behavior.”
― Jen Hatmaker, For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards

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“There’s something special about a grandmother’s house. You never forget how it smells.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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“Mudita is the principle of taking sympathetic or unselfish joy in the good fortune of others. If I only find joy in my own successes, I’m limiting my joy. But if I can take pleasure in the successes of my friends and family—ten, twenty, fifty people!—I get to experience fifty times the happiness and joy. Who doesn’t want that?”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

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“I don’t remember ever looking at my mother this way, like I could eat her down to the bone then wipe my bloody mouth on her hair.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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“People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you're failing. It calms them. But when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.”
― Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

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