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“Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.”
― The Pillars of the Earth
― The Pillars of the Earth
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Good Morning
Don't wait on anyone to make your favorite thing
Make your own favorite thing
Go”
― Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You
Don't wait on anyone to make your favorite thing
Make your own favorite thing
Go”
― Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You
“A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used again and again to connote the highest intimacy. True sisterhood is not the same as friendship. You don't choose each other and there is no furtive period of getting to know each other. You are a part of each other, right from the start. Look at an umbilical cord—tough, sinuous, unlovely, yet essential—and compare it to a friendship bracelet of brightly woven thread. That is the difference between a sister and a friend.”
― Blue Sisters
― Blue Sisters
Josephine’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Josephine’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
24 books
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26 friends
805 books
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96 friends
413 books
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3 friends
503 books
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68 friends
30 books
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8 friends
142 books
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32 friends
47 books
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6 friends
266 books
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8 friends
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