Renee

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The Thirty-Nine Steps

by John Buchan

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The Eyes & the Impossible

by Dave Eggers

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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

by Katherine Rundell

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Renee’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose

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What is needed is a new organization to co-ordinate, inspire, control and assist the nationals of the oppressed countries who must themselves be the direct participants. We need absolute secrecy, a certain fanatical enthusiasm, willingness ...more

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Renee’s Quotes

“You may be a bit presumptuous, Miss Woodhart, and may lack certain habits of good etiquette. But in dancing, you exceed many—and in loveliness, I have known no equal.”
― Hannah Linder, Beneath His Silence

tags: dancing, historical, historical-romance, regency, regency-era, regency-romance, romance

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“Keep to your Bible and to your fairy tales, sweet girl. One is for your soul and the other is for your daydreams. Both will help you through this, and in both you’ll find your story (pp. 245-246).”
― Pepper Basham, Hope Between the Pages

tags: bible, fairy-tales

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“Finally he puts his hand on the big boulder and caresses it from side to side as if touching her cheek. 'I miss you,' he whispers.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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“Perhaps tomorrow had never been meant for them at all. Perhaps tomorrow belonged to God.”
― Hannah Linder, When Tomorrow Came

tags: christian, god, inspirational, realization, regency, theme, thought, tomorrow, trust

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“It’s all right to talk to God about your problems. But sometimes you need to talk to your problems about God. Preach the goodness of God to them. Prophesy the promises of God to them. Proclaim the victory of the cross to them.”
― Dr. David Jeremiah

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