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The River Is Waiting

by Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author)

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Jill’s Notes & Highlights

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

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All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous.

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“...I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

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“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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“For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.”
― Adam Gidwitz, A Tale Dark & Grimm

tags: darkness, wisdom

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“You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide.
No guide, that is, but courage”
― Adam Gidwitz, A Tale Dark & Grimm

tags: courage, wisdom

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