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Amianne is Currently Reading

Amianne Bailey is currently reading

The Burning Side

by Sarah Damoff (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 01, 2026 09:55AM

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The Sweetness of Water

by Nathan Harris (Goodreads Author)

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May 11, 2026 08:33AM

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Braving the Truth: Essential Essays for Reckoning with and Reimagining Faith

by Rachel Held Evans

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Apr 08, 2026 10:45AM

Amianne’s Quotes

“My forever looks different than I expected, but sometimes beautiful things do.”
― Jen Hatmaker, Awake

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“It’s almost painful, the way little children just trustingly hold out their hearts for you to look at—the way they haven’t learned yet how to conceal what matters to them, even if it’s just chewing gum or a plush dolphin or plastic binoculars.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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“an accomplished master gardener, told me: You can’t tug on spring shoots of new plants. You have to wait. They are setting deep roots. You can’t grow a crop by pulling on leaves and stalks. You just create the right conditions… and you wait.”
― Jen Hatmaker, Awake: A Memoir

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“All the Women” i hope when you come home to yourself there are flowers lining the front porch that were left from all the women you were before ~MAIA, When the Waves Come”
― Jen Hatmaker, Awake: A Memoir

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“But grief was like a silver locket with two faces in it. I didn’t know what the faces looked like, but it was heavy around my neck, and I never took it off.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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