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Sam’s Quotes

“If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.”
― Sara Evans, Softly and Tenderly

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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: encouragement, gandalf

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“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”
― Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler

tags: grief, grieving

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“Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: monsters, scared

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“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.”
― Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

tags: friendship, grief, memoir

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Reading the Classics — 4053 members — last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more

Read the Movie — 848 members — last activity Jun 27, 2025 11:20PM
This group has been created to discuss books that have been or are being adapted into movies. This group was originally started for an in-life book cl ...more

Victorians! — 3768 members — last activity Jan 07, 2026 12:04PM
Some of the best books in the world were written and published in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901. What's not to love? Dickens, the Brontes, Co ...more