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“That’s how she finally made herself fall back to sleep: by remembering all the glorious moments, one after the other after the other, her children’s ecstatic faces looking for their parents in the stands, looking for their approval, looking for their love, knowing it was there, knowing—she hoped they knew this—that it would always be there, even long after she and Stan were gone, because love like that was infinite.”
― Apples Never Fall
― Apples Never Fall
“What Marcus Aurelius understood is that all of us are slaves in certain respects, even the emperor of Rome. We are slaves to time and chance; we are indentured to fate. “Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own,” he wrote in his Meditations. In another gem, he observed that “it never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
― The Book of Charlie
― The Book of Charlie
Denise Shelley’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Denise Shelley’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
671 books
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72 friends
237 books
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50 friends
275 books
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99 friends
264 books
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68 friends
299 books
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78 friends
110 books
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30 friends
90 books
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49 friends
142 books
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36 friends
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