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Kristin’s favorite books

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

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Kristin is Currently Reading

Kristin is currently reading

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

by Cookie Mueller

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Kristin’s Quotes

“I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: atheism, religion, skeptic

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“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

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“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

tags: life, love

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