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“The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.”
― The Forgotten
― The Forgotten
“In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don’t you have bigger things to do? Reading, let alone re-reading, is the terrain of milquetoasts and mopey spinsters. At life’s ugliest junctures the very act of opening a book can smack of cowardly escapism. Who chooses to read when there’s work to be done?
Call me a coward if you will, but when the line between duty and sanity blurs, you can usually find me curled up with a battered book, reading as if my mental health depended on it. And it does, for inside the books I love I find food, respite, escape, and perspective.”
― The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
Call me a coward if you will, but when the line between duty and sanity blurs, you can usually find me curled up with a battered book, reading as if my mental health depended on it. And it does, for inside the books I love I find food, respite, escape, and perspective.”
― The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotte’s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was Ally’s model book.
“I like the family that comes together in the barn,” Ally said without hesitation. “I like that they aren’t all the same thing; one is human and one’s a spider and one’s a pig. I like that it has nothing to do with blood relations, and everything to do with love.”
― The Wednesday Sisters
“I like the family that comes together in the barn,” Ally said without hesitation. “I like that they aren’t all the same thing; one is human and one’s a spider and one’s a pig. I like that it has nothing to do with blood relations, and everything to do with love.”
― The Wednesday Sisters
“You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.”
― Absolute Power
― Absolute Power
“she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome. And”
― The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
― The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
Q&A with Skip Coryell
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— last activity Mar 13, 2012 07:41AM
Skip Coryell will be available to answer all your questions from now until April 15th, 2012. Please stick to any of my 8 books, the writing process, o ...more
Skip Coryell will be available to answer all your questions from now until April 15th, 2012. Please stick to any of my 8 books, the writing process, o ...more
Country Gardeners
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— last activity Mar 16, 2012 01:23PM
A place to collect all our gardening book ideas!
A place to collect all our gardening book ideas!
Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine
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Hey Y’all, We’ve been reading together for awhile and we don’t know about you, but we’re ready to hear your thoughts and opinions. This group is a pl ...more
Hey Y’all, We’ve been reading together for awhile and we don’t know about you, but we’re ready to hear your thoughts and opinions. This group is a pl ...more
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