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Rosa is on page 358 of 400 of A Million Junes
My inheritance is grief and sunlight, and the ability to choose which to hold on to.
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A Million Junes

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Rosa is on page 290 of 400 of A Million Junes
“Maybe some people die gradually, move away from their bodies overtime, but others - people who shine- go in an instant. You can see their souls until the last possible second, fill the gap in the world, the second they’re lost.”
Mar 22, 2026 11:32AM Add a comment
A Million Junes

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Rosa is on page 191 of 611 of Duma Key
How to draw a picture (IV)— Start with what you know, then reinvent it. Art is magic, no argument there, but all art, no matter how strange, starts in the humble everyday.
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Duma Key

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Rosa is 72% done with Quentins
As part of her independent streak, Laura had created an annual outing. It was called the Chickless Mothers. Women like herself, who did not have loving or demonstrative families.
Mar 17, 2026 11:41PM 1 comment
Quentins

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Rosa is 37% done with Quentins
They keep asking me am I part of the New Poor. I don’t know where they heard the term but they love it.
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Quentins

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Rosa is 29% done with Quentins
“Can anyone of your sex-mad older generation realize that people in their twenties can be friends these days?”
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Quentins

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Rosa is on page 89 of 352 of The Mad Wife
… at that moment, the world remained dark, quiet, caught in its own moment of “dormiveglia”.
Mar 16, 2026 07:08PM Add a comment
The Mad Wife

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Rosa is on page 99 of 343 of The Vanishing Half
Gratitude only emphasized the depth of your lack, so she tried to hide it.
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The Vanishing Half

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Rosa is on page 263 of 327 of The Lion Women of Tehran
“We had simply been young people once. We didn’t get the benefit of a phase of life where rebellion and recalcitrance and moodiness were expected or excused. Hopefully, Bahar wouldn’t become a rebellious American teenager.”
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The Lion Women of Tehran

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Rosa is on page 180 of 327 of The Lion Women of Tehran
“For a while, we did the Persian tarof dance where he was self-deprecating and apologetic for his tea, and I insisted it was the best I’d ever had.”
Mar 07, 2026 02:57PM Add a comment
The Lion Women of Tehran

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Rosa is on page 283 of 432 of Delicate Condition
These doctors always seem to think women’s emotions are things to be hidden and locked away and fixed.
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Delicate Condition

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Rosa is on page 274 of 416 of Shark Heart
…drew an outline of a person who was generous wise and kind, and Angela’s longing, animated his image with life and color. This two dimensional…., the one she imagined was never real.
Feb 22, 2026 09:55AM Add a comment
Shark Heart

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Rosa is on page 77 of 416 of Shark Heart
The girls who tried to emulate her wore the aura of having worked hard to appear effortless. The boys who asked her out, had a high opinion of themselves.
Feb 21, 2026 12:35PM Add a comment
Shark Heart

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Rosa is on page 436 of 480 of Smilla's Sense of Snow
There’s no simple arithmetic for life’s distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share.
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Smilla's Sense of Snow

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Rosa is on page 353 of 480 of Smilla's Sense of Snow
“I don’t fall in love anymore. Just like I don’t get the mumps.”
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Smilla's Sense of Snow

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Rosa is on page 161 of 320 of Valentine
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Valentine

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Rosa is on page 220 of 480 of Smilla's Sense of Snow
There’s something honest about an industrial harbor. There are no royal yacht clubs here, no promenades, no energy, wasted on façades.
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Smilla's Sense of Snow

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Rosa is on page 137 of 480 of Smilla's Sense of Snow
“For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad.” Mark 4:22
Face in divine justice has given her patience.”
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Smilla's Sense of Snow

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Rosa is on page 112 of 480 of Smilla's Sense of Snow
“I feel the same way about my spatial freedom as I’ve noticed men feel about their testicles. I cradle it like a baby, & worship it like a goddess.”
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Smilla's Sense of Snow

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Rosa is on page 86 of 256 of Detained: A Boy’s Journal of Survival and Resilience
If I were a millionaire, I’d give her all my money so she could give elotes con chile away for free all day, as a service to the world.
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Detained: A Boy’s Journal of Survival and Resilience

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Rosa is 81% done with LEO XIV - Robert Francis Prevost - The Life of the Man behind the Pope: The Most Insightful Biography of Pope Leo XIV—A Story of Faith, Humility, and Global Change
The rise of a North American pontiff—an occurrence that was for decades considered diplomatically problematic, even taboo—represents a deep recalibration of the Church’s relationship with Western power itself.
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LEO XIV - Robert Francis Prevost - The Life of the Man behind the Pope: The Most Insightful Biography of Pope Leo XIV—A Story of Faith, Humility, and Global Change

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Rosa is 57% done with LEO XIV - Robert Francis Prevost - The Life of the Man behind the Pope: The Most Insightful Biography of Pope Leo XIV—A Story of Faith, Humility, and Global Change
“The next pope,” he said, “must know how to guard the deposit of faith—but with the tenderness of a confessor, not the sternness of a judge.”
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LEO XIV - Robert Francis Prevost - The Life of the Man behind the Pope: The Most Insightful Biography of Pope Leo XIV—A Story of Faith, Humility, and Global Change

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Rosa is 42% done with LEO XIV - Robert Francis Prevost - The Life of the Man behind the Pope: The Most Insightful Biography of Pope Leo XIV—A Story of Faith, Humility, and Global Change
Robert’s contribution helped shape the synod’s emphasis on integral ecology, indigenous rights, and inculturated evangelization.
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LEO XIV - Robert Francis Prevost - The Life of the Man behind the Pope: The Most Insightful Biography of Pope Leo XIV—A Story of Faith, Humility, and Global Change

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Rosa is 21% done with LEO XIV - Robert Francis Prevost - The Life of the Man behind the Pope: The Most Insightful Biography of Pope Leo XIV—A Story of Faith, Humility, and Global Change
The novitiate year was a time of withdrawal from the world, marked by intense prayer, study of the Rule of St. Augustine, and discernment within community life.
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LEO XIV - Robert Francis Prevost - The Life of the Man behind the Pope: The Most Insightful Biography of Pope Leo XIV—A Story of Faith, Humility, and Global Change

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