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"The dedication made me cry. The forward from one whose husband's ministry and music we have so appreciated was a delightful surprise. And just two pages into the intro, Colleen has already referenced Lucy and Mole.
This is a book to be devoured or savored depending on the day." — Oct 16, 2025 06:56AM
"The dedication made me cry. The forward from one whose husband's ministry and music we have so appreciated was a delightful surprise. And just two pages into the intro, Colleen has already referenced Lucy and Mole.
This is a book to be devoured or savored depending on the day." — Oct 16, 2025 06:56AM
“Can I read it?” Jack sighed. “Suppose so. It won’t happen anyway. What’s the point?” “You’re far too world-weary for a six-year-old,” she teased, but her heart gave a twist in her chest.
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
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