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Diane Bean

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In Case You Get Hit by a Bus: How to Organize Your Life Now for When You're Not Around Later

by Abby Schneiderman

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The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1) by C.S. Lewis

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Whenever they are attending to the Enemy Himself we are defeated, but there are ways of preventing them from doing so. The simplest is to turn their gaze away from Him towards themselves. Keep them watching their own minds and trying to ...more

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Diane’s Quotes

“I never know what people are thinking. It's like visiting a country where you don't speak the language and you're trying so hard to understand but no matter how many times you ask for juice, they keep bringing you milk.”
― Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know

tags: autism-awareness

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“Exactly. He is the Most Unlikely Person, and that is why Sherlock Holmes would suspect him at once.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

tags: lord-peter-wimsey

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“Well, it’s no good jumping at conclusions.”
“Jump? You don’t even crawl distantly within sight of a conclusion.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?

tags: humor, quick-witted

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“I have a peculiar instinct about pubs. I can find one blindfold in a pea-souper with both hands tied behind me.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

tags: lord-peter-wimsey

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“If there had been a clock in the room, it would have stopped. Occasionally, there are minutes that get extra seconds. Moments so precious the universe stretches to make additional room for them, and this was one of them. People don't get pauses like these very often. Some people never receive them at all.”
― Stephanie Garber, Excerpt: Finale

tags: precious-moments, time

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