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I LOVE this book! Favourite of the year so far.

But now … to her surprise, it didn’t hurt. Or rather, it did, but it was a sweeter ache than it used to be.

“So people who would rather blame the global warming of the past century on shifts in Earth’s natural climate are simply exhibiting their ignorance of how the universe works”

The words I loved reading today.

There was a man who lived long ago, a philosopher called Socrates. He believed that happiness comes not from bodily pleasures or wealth or power, but from living a life that’s right for your soul.”

2024 Challenge 📚

Read 12 books recommended by 12 friends.

I’ll take the first 12 listed by 12 different people in the comments. (If I haven’t read them already)

Only rules are that:

📚You can only make one recommendation, unless asked for another one.

📚 It should be a book you have read and love.

If I have already read your recommendation, I’ll ask you for another one.

What? You killed my favourite character???

“she wanted to pull people aside and lecture them, but she’d just be a crazy girl in the park, saying that the sky was falling. No matter that the sky was most certainly falling.”

“We need our Ronnie to save the world from his ancestors, not run it aground on their behalf.”

Great but hard to read in anything more than small bites at a time.

“I miss her so much I can’t breathe. How will I make it like this for the rest of my life?”

“Both she and Olivia carried the same pain. A pain that would never go away, should never go away. Because love and loss hurt.”

Only on page 14 and already love this book.
“So I had to buy a house in the country. Buy, not rent. It is ridiculous to rent things if you are a gardener, it fidgets you. Even a very long lease is upsetting. I once owned a house with a 999 years lease and it gave me an unbearable sense of being a sort of week-end guest; it hardly seemed worthwhile planting the hyacinths.”

Loving the true? regency ghost stories. Not too scary (so far). Just right for a rainy night in November.

“Men who had choices handed to them regularly misconstrued privilege for luck.”

“I am not one of nature’s liars. I can keep my secrets to myself, right up until the time someone asks me about them.”

“Impatience is all I got” says Ron. “It’s my superpower”.

“The trick wasn’t necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage”

“Because a life without hope isn’t a life lived at all.”

And now I want cake

“Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.”

“Fear didn’t make the hole bigger, Beauvoir had learned. But cowardice did.”

“Realize that becoming the kind of person who does what you’re setting out to do is an act of self-love and respect, that forming this habit means you believe in yourself, and that you’re doing what it takes to give your awesome self everything you desire and deserve.”

Habits can help you achieve all of these things, but fundamentally they are not about having something. They are about becoming someone.

“If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.”

“Decency,” that word seems to recur so often in his work, that humans should behave as decently as possibly toward one another, a Christian ethic to carry forward beyond the end of Christianity’s days.”

“It’s not you, it’s me.”
When this pandemic is all over and they have a vaccine I need to go back through all the books I shelved on my “started-but-couldn’t-get-into shelf” in 2020 and try again.

This is a tragic tale. It’s definitely curing me of my dream to own a bookstore.

Okay Starless, what the hell is going on here.

“the root of all evil wasn’t money. No, what created and drove evil was fear. Fear of not having enough money, enough food, enough land, enough power, enough security, enough love. Fear of not getting what you want, or losing what you have.”

“I said to Matthew, ‘Stay outside in the corridor,’ and ignored his ‘aww’ of disappointment because I’m a mother and it’s my duty to frustrate and disappoint my offspring at every opportunity.”