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Hayley is Currently Reading

Hayley Ross is currently reading

Seven Girls Gone (Quinn & Costa #4)

by Allison Brennan (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 21, 2026 06:38AM

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The Poet X

by Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads Author)

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Hayley’s Notes & Highlights

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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All life needs is a chemical reaction that results in copies of the original catalyst. And you don’t need water for that!”

If a chemical system can make copies of itself, it could evolve over time. That is the basic definition many scientists use for life. Scientists look for water because it is the only environment where we know life works. But theoretically, life could exist in other ways

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Hayley’s Quotes

“Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don’t know how to read.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

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“Let them see my weakness, and let them see me overcome it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

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“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez, Invisible Reality

tags: epigraph, fahrenheit-451, nonconformity, protest, ray-bradbury

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“You don’t stop loving someone just because they hurt you,” he said. “It would certainly make things easier if you did.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

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“Don’t worry that you aren’t giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

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