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“Showing STRENGTH doesn't mean we have to fight a battle...Sometimes it's far better to WALK AWAY from all the nonsense and those who indulge in it”
― A Gallery of Scrapbook Creations
― A Gallery of Scrapbook Creations
“Perhaps there is some secret homing device in books that brings them to their perfect readers.”
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“Thoughts are energy, and you can make your world or break your world by your thinking.”
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“And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”
― The Painted Drum
― The Painted Drum
“How does one live amongst one’s fellow countrymen and countrywomen when you don’t know which of them is numbered amongst the sixty-million-plus who brought the horror to power, when you can’t tell who should be counted among the ninety-million-plus who shrugged and stayed home, or when your fellow Americans tell you that knowing things is elitist and they hate elites, and all you have ever had is your mind and you were brought up to believe in the loveliness of knowledge, not that knowledge-is-power nonsense, but knowledge is beauty, and then all of that, education, art, music, film, becomes a reason for being loathed…”
― The Golden House
― The Golden House
Alma’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alma’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,064 books
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68 friends
1,947 books
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53 friends
863 books
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133 friends
987 books
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31 friends
665 books
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157 friends
1,096 books
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52 friends
22 books
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100 friends
100 books
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107 friends
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