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The Substitute Wife (Brides of Little Creede Book 1)

by Cici Cordelia (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 15, 2026 10:50PM

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Kiss River (Kiss River #2)

by Diane Chamberlain (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 08, 2026 05:24PM

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The Apollo Murders

by Chris Hadfield

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“We live stitch by stitch, when we’re lucky. If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching. And maybe the stitching is crude, or it is unraveling, but if it were precise, we’d pretend that life was just fine and running like a Swiss watch. This is not helpful if on the inside our understanding is that life is more often a cuckoo clock with rusty gears.”
― Anne Lamott, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

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“What a paradox: that we connect with God, with divinity, in our flesh and blood and time and space. We connect with God in our humanity. A great truth, attributed to Emily Dickinson, is that “hope inspires the good to reveal itself.” This is almost all I ever need to remember. Gravity and sadness yank us down, and hope gives us a nudge to help one another get back up or to sit with the fallen on the ground, in the abyss, in solidarity.”
― Anne Lamott, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

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“I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me.”
― Julia Donaldson

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“My understanding of incarnation is that we are not served by getting away from the grubbiness of suffering. Sometimes we feel that we are barely pulling ourselves forward through a tight tunnel on badly scraped-up elbows. But we do come out the other side, exhausted and changed. It would be great if we could shop, sleep or date our way out of this. Sometimes we think we can, but it feels that way only for a while. To heal, it seems we have to stand in the middle of the horror, at the foot of the cross, and wait out another’s suffering where that person can see us. To be honest, that sucks. It’s the worst, even if you are the mother of God.”
― Anne Lamott, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

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