“Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.”
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“Sometimes, if not most of the time, you find out who you are by figuring out who and what you are not.”
― If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
― If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
“There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?”
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“Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten.”
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Diane’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Diane’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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