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Jen is Currently Reading

Jen is currently reading

The Regency Switch

by Helen Gaskell (Goodreads Author)

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The Right Move (Windy City, #2)

by Liz Tomforde (Goodreads Author)

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Mr. Absolutely Not! (The Seattle Svenssons #1)

by Alina Jacobs (Goodreads Author)

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Jen’s Notes & Highlights

Stoner by John Williams

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The True, the Good, the Beautiful. They’re just around the corner, in the next corridor; they’re in the next book, the one you haven’t read, or in the next stack, the one you haven’t got to. But you’ll get to it someday. And when you ...more

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Jen’s Quotes

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore, power-of-words

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“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

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“Harold sighs. “Jude,” he says, “there’s not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don’t get to a certain age and it stops.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

tags: friendship, love

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