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Modern culture makes it hard for us to have compassion for ourselves. We spend so much of our lives climbing a pyramid of achievement where we are constantly being evaluated and judged, and often found to be not making the grade. We
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“But Kirk stopped me short with a simple, Socratic question. If sleep is so unimportant, he asked, then why hasn’t evolution gotten rid of it?”
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
“I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.”
― The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
― The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
“[He] is the worst kind of asshole they make - the kind who is completely oblivious to how he sounds, the kind who is impossible to argue with because he doesn't allow for a worldview outside of his own.”
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
“Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.”
― Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
― Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“As Terry had written: “Family pathology rolls from generation to generation like a fire in the woods taking down everything in its path until one person, in one generation, has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to his ancestors and spares the children that follow.” I wanted to be that person.”
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
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Welcome to the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge, the cozy corner for all Gilmore Girls fans and book lovers ready to dive into Rory’s famously eclectic ...more
Kendra’s 2025 Year in Books
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