Paola Barrera
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It was an obvious reminder of one of the basic lessons of adulthood: it’s not all about you.
“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home--they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.”
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“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”
― What Happened to Goodbye
― What Happened to Goodbye
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