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Nicole is Currently Reading

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Canticle

by Janet Rich Edwards (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 28, 2025 01:14PM

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The Black Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #20)

by Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 10, 2025 02:07PM

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Buckeye

by Patrick Ryan (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 04, 2025 11:09AM

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
― George Eliot

tags: love

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“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

tags: life, music, power-of-music

385 likes

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

tags: cooking, food, vegetarian

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“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”
― George Eliot

tags: self

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