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Alison is Currently Reading

Alison is currently reading

Counting Down to You

by Emily Stone (Goodreads Author)

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Alison’s Quotes

“Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.”
― Debbie Macomber

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“Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
― Groucho Marx

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“If there was one thing I had learned in all my strange journeys it was that what would be would be and sometimes you wait to see.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, The Night Masquerade

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“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

tags: past, solution, truth

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“Walk tall as the trees,
Live strong as the mountains,
Be gentle as the spring winds,
Keep the warmth of the summer sun in your heart,
And the Great Spirit will always be with you.”
― American Indian

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