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Jessi is Currently Reading

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Anecdotes of Destiny

by Isak Dinesen

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

by Seth Grahame-Smith (Goodreads Author)

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A Girl of the Limberlost

by Gene Stratton-Porter

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The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

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“Netted better than thirty five thou this year—now ain’t that something?” You would have to know Harold to understand that this is not exactly a boast. It is a piece of cheerful news from a cheerful and simple sort of a fellow who can’t get ...more

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Jessi’s Quotes

“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbors.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

tags: marriage

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“There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

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“Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

tags: prayer

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