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The Pull of the Stars

by Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 24, 2026 06:33PM

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The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert, #1; Detective Max Rupert, #1)

by Allen Eskens (Goodreads Author)

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Pat’s Quotes

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

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“Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and also is both.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

tags: forgetting-the-pain, forgetting-the-past, forgiveness, forgiving-is-not-forgetting, forgiving-others, letting-go, trauma, trauma-healing

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“Some things ought to exist outside capitalism, and wildness should be one of them.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

tags: capitalism, eco-tourism, wild-places, wilderness, wildness

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“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Rumi

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“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life For A Life

tags: friendship, kindness

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