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Liza is Currently Reading

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Back When We Were Grownups

by Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 19, 2026 05:02PM

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Hearts Divided: 5-B Poppy Lane / The Apple Orchard / Liberty Hall (Cedar Cove, #5.5)

by Debbie Macomber (Goodreads Author)

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May 22, 2026 08:16AM

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The Borrowers Afloat (The Borrowers, #3)

by Mary Norton

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Liza’s Quotes

“Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

81 likes

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: inspirational, play, work

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“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: happiness

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“Red hair is my life long sorrow.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: redheads

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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