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Caryl

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The Correspondent

by Virginia Evans (Goodreads Author)

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Caryl said: " Perfect. Absolutely perfect. Why do we read, why for the stories of course and Virginia Evans has written the most beautiful book that has touched me on so many levels. It is a gift I will treasure, thank you Ms Evans. "

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Mad Mabel

by Sally Hepworth (Goodreads Author)

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Washington: A Life

by Ron Chernow

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Caryl’s Notes & Highlights

Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo

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Turn your eyes away from the good life for just a second and there it was: not depression as much as an ugly little doubt about everything you had ever done; not confusion, exactly, but a kind of lingering question.

Caryl’s Quotes

“Most of her memories of Sylvie were blurred and faded, like chalk drawings on a slate carried too long under a child’s arm.”
― Kelly Mustian, The Girls in the Stilt House

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“You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

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“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

tags: choices, life

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