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Barbara’s favorite books

The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare City of Bones by Cassandra Clare Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Persuasion by Jane Austen The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Barbara’s Quotes

Veronica Roth
“Like so much of what she said about herself, it was both a joke and not a joke.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
tags: anxiety, depression, humor, life
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Cormac McCarthy
“The gifts of the Almighty are weighed and parceled out in a scale peculiar to himself.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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C.S. Lewis
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
― C.S. Lewis
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Veronica Roth
“Death is a mercy compared to the agony I have caused."
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― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
tags: death, life, mercy, truth
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Charlotte Brontë
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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