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Leesa Cross-Smith
Goodreads Author
Born
in Kentucky, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Jane Austen, Banana Yoshimoto
Member Since
August 2007
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/kissingwhiskey
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This Close to Okay
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2021
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14 editions
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Half-Blown Rose
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2022
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8 editions
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Whiskey & Ribbons
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2018
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11 editions
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So We Can Glow: Stories
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2020
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11 editions
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Every Kiss a War
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2014
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3 editions
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The Best Small Fictions 2015
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2015
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4 editions
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Goodbye Earl
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expected publication
2023
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7 editions
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The Great Barrier Reef Is Dying but so Are We
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2018
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2 editions
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Shorts, Volume One
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Flash: An Anthology
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2012
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“You’re human, and you have to reconcile that with yourself somehow. Forgive yourself. Allow yourself to feel everything deeply, to grow and learn.”
― This Close to Okay
― This Close to Okay
“How sometimes your body couldn't tell the difference between not loving someone enough and loving someone too much.”
― Every Kiss a War
― Every Kiss a War
“After love, forgiveness is the strongest glue holding every family together.”
― This Close To Okay
― This Close To Okay
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| Black Coffee: * 2018 African-American Historical Fiction Book Nominations | 40 | 147 | Aug 25, 2018 11:32AM | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Discussion: An American Marriage | 110 | 223 | Sep 05, 2018 11:19AM | |
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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.”
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― The Dharma Bums
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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