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Julie Herringa

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Julie is Currently Reading

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Half His Age

by Jennette McCurdy

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A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19

by Edna Bonhomme

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Julie’s Quotes

“When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence.”
― Mark Strand

tags: poetry, shadows, silence

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“It was sobering to think of how much of me I had squandered, in vain pursuit of being accepted, instead of putting that same energy into living a life that was worth something.”
― Paul Wilson, BAD KARMA: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from Hell

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“Because—as I’d discovered—loneliness is not a function of company, but rather it is a consequence: an unpleasant symptom of a needy state of mind that desperately seeks to extract happiness from a source outside itself.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

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“partnership between cats and humans is older than currency, older than man’s use of metals, and older even than written language.”
― Paul Koudounaris, A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History

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“If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the inside.”
― Jim Kwik

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