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Candi is Currently Reading

Candi is currently reading

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Memoir of Nature, Observation, and the Seasons in Virginia

by Annie Dillard

bookshelves: nature, non-fiction, currently-reading

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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

by Barry Lopez

bookshelves: audio-book, essays, nature, non-fiction, currently-reading

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Candi’s Quotes

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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“I have always loved a window, especially an open one.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

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“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
― Helen Keller

tags: lily-white-cleats

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“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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