Kathy O'Dowd

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Kathy is Currently Reading

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Playground

by Richard Powers

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Kathy’s Notes & Highlights

The Memory Watcher by Minka Kent

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Rounding the next aisle, I stop in my heels when I spot a familiar image in the distance. Long legs, red-bottomed shoes, glossy red hair and a screaming toddler paint a portrait of a woman I know like the back of my hand but have yet to ...more

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Kathy’s Quotes

“The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

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“WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

tags: courage, decision-making

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“Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

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