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Josie is Currently Reading

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The Scapegoat

by Daphne du Maurier

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Above Suspicion (Anna Travis, #1)

by Lynda La Plante

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Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

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Josie’s Quotes

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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“You may well know a lawyer, or of a friend of a friend who’s a lawyer, who is fabulously well off. If so, I offer you an iron-clad guarantee that they are not a criminal lawyer.”
― The Secret Barrister, The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

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“That’s the strangest of all. I look down at his blood and know my death is coming. But in the dream I do not mind. What I feel, most of all, is relief.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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“Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

tags: friendship, kindness

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“The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. “What’s better for us?” Barack called to the people gathered in the room. “Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

tags: choice, hard-work, settle

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