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The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage

by Halima Khatun (Goodreads Author)

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Living by Troubled Waters

by Roy McFarlane

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May 03, 2026 10:41AM

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Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder

by Edward M. Hallowell (Goodreads Author)

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The Wedding Drums by Marilyn Rodwell

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‘Listen to yourself! You are frightened of a woman? You are the man of the house! So show them you are the boss – or your daughter will never learn to obey a man when she is married. Besides, marry her while she can still sit on your lap at ...more

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Uncomfortable reading. Seems farfetched. Is this really what might run through a man's mind?

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Amanda’s Quotes

“Doubt now riots against certainty—”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

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“David Davis had promised that Britain would be part of a free-trade area ‘almost twice the size of the EU’ within two years of the Brexit vote – a statement outdone in its absurdity only by Mr Davis’ later boast of negotiating a trading area ‘probably ten times the size of the European Union’. Based on GDP, Davis is aiming for something larger than the economies of the entire planet combined.68 So it can’t happen.”
― Nick Clegg, How To Stop Brexit

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“Any person’s behaviour would mutate under such constant scrutiny, such bigoted piety – neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

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“I have often heard the advice, “When you’re feeling bad, go out into the night and look at the stars.” Why it is so healing is a mystery, but it has something to do with remembering my actual position in it all. At a deeper level, knowing that we are made of the same elements grounds me; sensing that the same process forms us from those elements moves me to my core.”
― Katherine Robertson-Pilling, The Wheel of Creativity: Taking Your Place in the Adventure of Life

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“… be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and … try to love the questions themselves…. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1934)”
― Katherine Robertson-Pilling, The Wheel of Creativity: Taking Your Place in the Adventure of Life

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