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I owed Tom for this release. If not for fear of losing my fiancé to baby bulge, I would never have dragged myself to the YMCA in the first place. I wouldn’t have started swim classes and learned to shed tension in the water.
“I used to worry about fitting in until I realized the reason I didn't fit in was because I didn't want to.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“If we demand the future be free from suffering in order to be happy; we can't be happy.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“Jan and I knew, when we left Ethan with his grandparents, as we did through the week when we both went to work, that he wasn’t going to be exposed to any hazards. No frayed light cords, no poisonous chemicals left where he could get his hands on them, no upturned carpet edges he could run and trip on. And their rates just happened to be more reasonable than any nursery schools in the area.”
― Never Look Away
― Never Look Away
“When you leave the spoons to dry like this without turning them over, the water ends up leaving a mark,” he’d say to my mother, holding up one of the offensive items of cutlery.”
― Never Look Away
― Never Look Away
“To know which path to take, it helps to take a few wrong ones.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
Carmen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carmen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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873 friends
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90 books
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514 books
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516 books
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116 books
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128 books
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115 friends
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22 friends
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