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Laura

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Laura is Currently Reading

Laura is currently reading

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

bookshelves: audiobooks, read-2026, currently-reading

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May 02, 2026 05:07AM

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

bookshelves: audiobooks, read-2026, currently-reading

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Laura’s Quotes

“To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Queen's Fool

tags: knowledge, reading

19 likes

“The way I see it: Why get out of bed when you can read about people who got out of bed?”
― -Eric Foreman That 70's Show

tags: humor, humour, laziness, reading

14 likes

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
― Ed Sullivan

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“Being a “friend of sinners” is an accusation that Christians should wear as a badge of honor, for nothing could honor Jesus more, and nothing is more revealing of who God actually is.”
― Ronnie McBrayer, Leaving Religion, Following Jesus

tags: jesus, sinners, welcome

6 likes

“When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

tags: humility, meekness, sin, slander

60 likes

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