Denise

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Denise is Currently Reading

Denise is currently reading

My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)

by Elena Ferrante

bookshelves: historical-fiction, waterstones-book-of-the-year, currently-reading

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May 14, 2026 01:54PM

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If the Shoe Kills (A Tourist Trap Mystery, #3)

by Lynn Cahoon (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, cozy-mystery

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May 14, 2026 01:52PM

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The Silent Wife (Will Trent, #10)

by Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)

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Denise’s Quotes

“It's said that ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance is this: a vine that
sneaks up a tree, killing not by
poison, but by blocking out its
light.”
― Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

tags: ignorance, knowledge, poem, poetry

31 likes

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
― Desmond Tutu

tags: hope

27 likes

“The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: normality, people

130 likes

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

tags: communism, nazism, post-factual, totalitarianism

385 likes

“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.”
― Jimmy Carter

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