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Amanda is Currently Reading

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Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)

by Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 04, 2026 06:35AM

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Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass, #6)

by Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)

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Amanda’s Quotes

“I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?”
― David Byrne, How Music Works

tags: enjoyment, life, meaning, music, ocean, pleasure, sea, stories

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“When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

tags: baby, mother, motherhood, parents, pregnancy

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“My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.”
― Megan Miranda, Vengeance

tags: africa, beautiful, coast, connect, connection, contact, country, death, distance, distances, foot, girl, inspirational, knowing, lake, linking, links, living, maine, mom, mother, mum, near, ocean, opposite, oppressive, proximity, relationship, sad, sea, shore, sides, thinking, thoughts, toe, together, true, truth, water, wisdom, wise, world

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“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

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“I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. I want to learn how to stand wherever with whoever and still feel stable. I want to learn how to unlock the locks to our minds, my mind, so that when I hear opinions or views that don’t match up with mine, I can still listen and understand. I want to burn up lifeless habits of following maps and to-do lists, concentrated liquids to burn my mind and throat
and I want to go back to the way nature shaped me. I want to learn to go on well with whatever I have in my hands at the moment
in a natural state of mind,
certain like the sea.

I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.”
― Charlotte Eriksson