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Mandi is Currently Reading

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Frankie: A Novel

by Graham Norton

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Hold Strong

by Robert Dugoni (Goodreads Author)

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Buckeye

by Patrick Ryan (Goodreads Author)

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Mandi’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for She Wrote it Down: How a Secret-Keeper Became a Storyteller

She Wrote it Down: How a Secret-Keeper Became a Storyteller by Laura Parrott Perry

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I have learned that for me, shame is like kryptonite. It was utterly destructive, a boot on my neck for most of my life. It is powerful and treacherous, and it is a luxury I cannot afford.

Mandi’s Quotes

“Silence is sometimes the best answer”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, journey, reading, travel

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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

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“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

tags: life

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“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

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