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Amy is Currently Reading

Amy is currently reading

Wayward Girls

by Susan Wiggs (Goodreads Author)

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Amy said: " Yes:
A book I borrowed from the library to try before I buy (tired buying hundreds books and hating half)

I read first ch or more -first 10-100 pages skim around at times. I read many of my GR friend’s reviews. This is what I did and didn’t like:

Cool ...more "

Dec 17, 2025 10:57AM · see review

Amy’s Quotes

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. ”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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“No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.”
― Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures

tags: abundance, beautiful, blessing, blindness, description, guilt, hope, hymn, ineffable, mood, wordless

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“But it’s what we do, what we’ve done for years now. We drag our past behind us like a weight, still shackled, but far enough back that we never have to see, never have to openly acknowledge who we once were.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

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“There are some swims you do regret, Eleanor. The problem is, you never know until you take them.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

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“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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