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Melissa is Currently Reading

Melissa is currently reading

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun

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Yet somehow for this generation of women, the belief that girls could do anything morphed into a directive that they must do everything.

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Melissa’s Quotes

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

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“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

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“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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