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Parker is currently reading

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 15, 2026 05:08AM

“Some people keep their heart tucked so deep, they hardly know it’s there. But you, you have always worn it like a second skin. Open to the world. You feel it all. The love and pain. The joy and hope and sorrow. It will make your life harder, but it will also make it beautiful.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

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“Their family had always been good at hellos and goodbyes, moments ending even as they began. It was easy to love someone in the beginnings and endings; it was all the time in between that was so hard.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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“It's easy to get lost in surviving. But to live is to be conscious. To walk through a field of flowers and stop to feel the softness of each petal, to inhale the perfume of each blossom.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, Where the Wildflowers Grow

tags: flowers, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, life-lessons, wildflower-quotes, wildflowers

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“Belief has nothing to do with truth.”
― Percival Everett, James

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“Do you know any real magic? Grand magic? The kind in stories?"

He took her hand, pressed his lips to her knuckles, then he rested their clasped palms against his heart. "Only this," he said as morning drew near. "Only this.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

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