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What Happens When Women Say Yes to God: Experiencing Life in Extraordinary Ways

by Lysa TerKeurst (Goodreads Author)

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Abbey’s Notes & Highlights

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

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How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer

by Harold Schechter

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Abbey’s Quotes

“Anger is exhausting. Holding on to it will drain the life out of you.”
― Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

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“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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“As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are… People are different when you can smell them and see them up close…”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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