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She didn’t mention that even though adults didn’t often say it out loud, she still felt like she was on the wrong end of a joke that everyone seemed to get but her. She hoped her son would somehow fare better than she had, that he’d find at
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“Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so.”
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“The ways of God are not the ways of man, and they are most emphatically not the ways of woman.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“I feared I might lose my faith. If you’ve never had a faith, you will not understand what that means. You feel as if your best friend is dying, that everything that defined you is being burned away; that you’ll be left all alone.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“She who cannot control herself cannot control the path to duty. Do not fight the waves of anger, use the anger as your fuel. Inhale. Exhale. Sidestep. Circumvent. Deflect.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“God isn’t what they say,” she said. She said you could believe in Gilead or you could believe in God, but not both. That was how she had managed her own crisis. I said that I wasn’t sure I would be able to choose. Secretly I feared that I would be unable to believe in either. Still, I wanted to believe; indeed I longed to; and, in the end, how much of belief comes from longing?”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
Tent Pegs and Titles
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Moncks Corner Book Club
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book club meeting once a month in Moncks Corner
Jenny’s 2025 Year in Books
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