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Annette is Currently Reading

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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

by Mary Roach

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The Plot (The Book Series, #1)

by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Goodreads Author)

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Annette’s Quotes

“Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk too much? You could call it On and On Anon.”
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

tags: anon, funny, humor

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“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields.”
― John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

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“Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years and allowed readers to catch up.”
― John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

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“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

tags: depression, sadness

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“Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors.”
― Ernst Bloch

tags: born-again, christianity, fundementalism, marx, religion

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