Kristen
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“Their house had real hard-cover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.”
― Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
― Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
“…I felt like I found some peace with the situation. It never got easier being without her, but I got used to how it felt to carry that pain with me. I learned to put it on a shelf and live my life.”
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“You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.”
― Heart the Lover
― Heart the Lover
“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”
― Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
― Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
“The first few years as a mom, it felt like you and your sister were pieces of my heart walking around outside my body. You were your own people, but you were also mine. It feels like a miracle, because it is. You had your father’s DNA and you had mine, and somehow that made a whole new person who was both of us and neither. And then you started growing up, and you found new things to like. Things I’d never even really considered. Pieces of yourself that were all you. And you didn’t need me anymore. It was amazing - it’s what’s supposed to happen. But it was terrifying too. To let you grow past me. Suddenly there were all these locked doors that used to be wide-open hallways.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
Kristen’s 2025 Year in Books
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