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Life has a way of reminding you that you are at the mercy of chance, and that even well-thought-out plans can turn to chaos in an instant.
Life Has given me this reminder many times
“Prudence is a bourgeois virtue, because the rich have something worth saving. The poor splurge because they need desperately to make a colorful splash across the drab fabric of their lives. The hungry don’t dream of brown rice and vegetables; they dream of cake.”
― The Crazyladies of Pearl Street
― The Crazyladies of Pearl Street
“People get too comfortable living with their own assumptions. I’m convinced most of us prefer to shun the truth for reasons of our own.”
― When I Was You
― When I Was You
“if you’re not with the book you want, you might as well want the book you’re with.”
― The Hazel Wood
― The Hazel Wood
“For most of my life, I have dwelt in a sort of no man’s land where loneliness has been an easier option than trying to fit in.”
― The Dressmaker's Gift
― The Dressmaker's Gift
“Everyone is supposed to be a combination of nature and nurture, their true selves shaped by years of friends and fights and parents and dreams and things you did too young and things you overheard that you shouldn’t have and secrets you kept or couldn’t and regrets and victories and quiet prides, all the packed-together detritus that becomes what you call your life.”
― The Hazel Wood
― The Hazel Wood
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Joycelyn Elliott’s 2025 Year in Books
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