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Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)

by Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)

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"is anielle meant to be helms deep or and wherever aedion is taking the army gondor?" — 17 hours, 0 min ago

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Upstream: Selected Essays

by Mary Oliver

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Grace McMorris said: " LOVE!!! Wish I had a paper copy which is more satisfactory for bookmarking then my tablet "

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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

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Feb 05, 2025 07:06PM

“I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves - we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other's destiny.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

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“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

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“We do not think of it every day, but we never forget it: the beloved shall grow old, or ill, and be taken away finally. No matter how ferociously we fight, how tenderly we love, how bitterly we argue, how pervasively we berate the universe, how cunningly we hide, this is what shall happen.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

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“Stories are powerful, but gather too many of the words of others in your heart and they will drown out your own. Remember that”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

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“Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long ago, comes over me like a vapor. With growth into adulthood, responsibilities claimed me, so many heavy coats. I didn’t choose them, I don’t fault them, but it took time to reject them. Now in the spring I kneel, I put my face into the packets of violets, the dampness, the freshness, the sense of ever-ness. Something is wrong, I know it, if I don’t keep my attention on eternity. May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stay forever in the stream. May I look down upon the windflower and the bull thistle and the coreopsis with the greatest respect.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

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