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Ruin (Gods, #1)

by Samantha Towle (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 05, 2024 08:43AM

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Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans

by Malachi Martin

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☼Marian☼ said: " Definitely not for the fainthearted.

The book documented five true-to-life cases of possession and exorcism of a priest, a highly intellectual psychic, a transvestite,a loner & a woman who struggles to attain her freedom.

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"A chilling read. It is scary not because of all the details, but because the stories are real encounters. The thoughts of the possessed person & the exorcist showed their personal struggle with their history, belief, unbelief & faith; & how the evil crept silently into the victim's life corrupting the good in them." — Nov 18, 2012 09:26PM

Mar 06, 2013 08:55PM · see review

☼Marian☼’s Notes & Highlights

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

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☼Marian☼’s Quotes

“Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: conscience, innocence

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“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

tags: punctuality

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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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