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“...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater gratification than lying in bed with your children, putting your leg on top of them in a semi-crushing manner, while saying sternly, "You are a poo.”
― How to Be a Woman
― How to Be a Woman
“I'd been told that wonky teeth, like unpierced ears, were valuable human relics from another time.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.”
― The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance
― The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance
“I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.”
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.”
― Daddy-Long-Legs
― Daddy-Long-Legs
Cindy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cindy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
178 books
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35 friends
2,877 books
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141 friends
780 books
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102 friends
1,460 books
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92 friends
1,286 books
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79 friends
68 books
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2 friends
645 books
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76 friends
1 book
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59 friends
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