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Nana said Mom thrived then because she felt endlessly influential. Later on, as I began to develop what my mom called “a mind of my own,” she took my growth as an affront to her past efforts—all the times she licked my fur and placed food
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“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.”
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“It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us.”
― Lucy by the Sea
― Lucy by the Sea
“If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest. That's how he saw it, how he'd always seen things.”
― The Nickel Boys
― The Nickel Boys
“Make no mistake,' He says, 'if you let me, I will make you perfect. The moment you put yourself in My hands, that is what you are in for. Nothing less, or other, than that. You have free will, and if you choose, you can push Me away. But if you do not push Me away, understand that I am going to see this job through. Whatever suffering it may cost you in your earthly life, whatever inconceivable purification it may cost you after death, whatever it costs Me, I will never rest, nor let you rest, until you are literally perfect - until my Father can say without reservation that He is well pleased with you, as He said He was well pleased with me. This I can do and will do. But I will not do anything less.”
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Clean Reads
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Summer’s 2025 Year in Books
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