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While You Were Seething

by Charlotte Stein (Goodreads Author)

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Swedish Death Cleaning for Americans: Declutter Your Home, Organize Your life, Live Intentionally, and Plan Your Legacy the Scandinavian Way by Christine Carlström

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It gets us to think about whether each thing we have is actually making our lives better or just weighing us down.

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“You are a scoundrel," she whispered furiously.

"Yes," he agreed. "I'm thinking of starting a Society of Gentlemen Scoundrels."

"You're millennia too late. It already exists and is called the patriarchy.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

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“My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me.”
― Jane Austen

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“But when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.”
― Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

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“My life is like tofu—it's what gets added that makes it interesting.”
― Angela Johnson, A Certain October

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“We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions.”
― Hisashi Kashiwai, Los misterios de la taberna Kamogawa

tags: comfort-food, expectation, first-impressions, food, nostalgia, taking-for-granted

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