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“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”
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“if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.”
―
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.”
―
“The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...”
― The End of Your Life Book Club
― The End of Your Life Book Club
“in our own ways we all break. it is okay to hold your heart outside of your body for days. months. years. at a time. – heal”
― salt.
― salt.
“You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of their shame, love, hope or pride.”
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Should have read classics
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— last activity Apr 17, 2020 07:38PM
This is a group that is reading some of the classics that maybe we should have read but we got so turned off by "classics" we had to read in high scho ...more
Around the World
— 1904 members
— last activity Jul 28, 2026 09:19PM
Each year we look at our to-be-read shelves and choose which countries of the world we want to travel through. Some of our members map their journeys ...more
Pulitzer Prize Winning Fiction Project
— 196 members
— last activity Dec 21, 2019 08:06AM
Join me in reading all of the Pulitzer Prize Winning Fiction!
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