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Becky Rice
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Chanukah is really not that big a deal, religiously speaking. If it didn’t happen to fall around the same time as the good old alleged virgin birth, Ross from Friends probably wouldn’t even know about it! Will our hosts be throwing a Sukkot
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This was maybe my favorite part. Everyone makes such a big deal out of Hanukkah when it’s really just a minor holiday when compared to other holy days.
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“When Salma peers into her daughter’s coffee cup, she knows instantly she must lie.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Maybe you survive cancer, maybe you survive the Holocaust, but life’ll get you every time.”
― Young Jane Young
― Young Jane Young
“There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you.”
― Women Talking
― Women Talking
“The limitless wrath of Achilles can end only once he recognizes that no absolute, permanent victory is ever possible. Everyone must bear unbearable losses, for which no compensation could ever be enough. In the end, we all lose. Our best hope is to accept partial, temporary limits on conflict, accepting human companionship and community as our only, always inadequate compensation, for the pervasive experience of loss.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
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