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Parker is Currently Reading

Parker is currently reading

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)

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Parker’s Quotes

“God’s greatest gift to us is our ability to love others, and to see it happening before your eyes … it’s like watching a garden grow.”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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

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“Truth over delusion. Growth over comfort.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

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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

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“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is life itself. We murder ourselves, he thought, by remembering”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

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