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read‎ (433)
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kids-teens‎ (103)
book-club‎ (70)

wwii‎ (67)
just-for-fun‎ (58)
college-and-grad-school‎ (41)
family-religious‎ (28)
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well-read-mom‎ (24)

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laura-ingalls-wilder‎ (17)
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high-school‎ (11)

2024-challenge‎ (10)
2018-challenge‎ (8)
craft‎ (7)
2019-challenge‎ (4)
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Therese’s Notes & Highlights

Kiss Carlo by Adriana Trigiani

1 highlight

Every Italian knows that once the gravy is burned, there is no saving it. The only solution is to throw it out, all of it, every drop, along with the pot.

Peace Like a River: A Novel

by Leif Enger

10 highlights
Cilka's Journey

by Heather Morris

1 highlight

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Therese’s Quotes

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire

tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire

1766 likes

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: attributed-no-source

31398 likes

“We talked and talked and talked. Maybe love comes in at the eyes, but not nearly as much as it comes in at the ears, at least in my experience. As we talked, lights flicked on inside my head; by the end of the night I was a planterium.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

58 likes

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, journey, reading, travel

5251 likes

“Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ”
― Elizabeth Stone

475 likes

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