Shannon

Shannon’s Bookshelves

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read-in-2013‎ (81)

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read-in-2015‎ (65)
biography-memoir‎ (64)
read-in-2014‎ (57)
read-in-2024‎ (47)
classics‎ (26)
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read-in-2022‎ (12)

read-in-2021‎ (11)
read-in-2016‎ (10)
grad-school‎ (6)
bible-studies‎ (4)
read-in-2026‎ (3)

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Shannon’s Notes & Highlights

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

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By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have ...more

Shannon’s Quotes

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

tags: katniss, love, peeta, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games

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“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life

6285 likes

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17602 likes

“This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”
― William Blake

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