Heather

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Heather is Currently Reading

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Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom, #2)

by John Updike

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— Jun 22, 2026 06:45PM

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The Devil in the White City

by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Heather’s Notes & Highlights

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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It was as if being a woman was a disease that you didn’t wish to catch. As long as you didn’t associate with the other women, you could imply to the majority, the men: I’m not like those other ones.

See Heather’s 21 books with notes and highlights…

“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

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“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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