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A Woman of Substance (Emma Harte Saga #1)

by Barbara Taylor Bradford

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“retrouvailles, another one of those words that do not translate into English, which means “the happiness of meeting someone you love again after a long time.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls

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“Yes, of course. If you love anyone, you cannot help but share his suffering. If we love our Lord, not just admire him or fear him or want things from him, we must recognize his feelings; he must be in anguish over our sins. We must understand this anguish. The Lord suffers with us. He suffers like us. It is a consolation to know this. To know that we are not in fact alone in our suffering.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

tags: christianity, faith, religion, spirituality

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“It seemed to him that half the fun of a library was stumbling on treasures by chance...
Conor, in The Library at the Edge of the World”
― Felicity Hayes-McCoy, The Library at the Edge of the World

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“Everything in life has its own time to happen. A time to plant, a time to grow, and a time to harvest. And if you take things steady you’ll bring your harvest home.”
― Felicity Hayes-McCoy, The Library at the Edge of the World

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“One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

tags: book-club, book-clubs, humor, inspiration, inspirational-quotes, philosophy

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