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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality, by understanding that we don’t need people.
“Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.”
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
“Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.”
― What the Dead Know
― What the Dead Know
“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes wheat, and the lightest parts of ourselves are scattered to the wind.”
― All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother
― All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother
“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful graces of God.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace
“A faithful friend is a strong protection. A person who has found one has found a treasure. A faithful friend is beyond price, And his value cannot be weighed. A faithful friend is a life-giving medicine. — The Apocrypha”
― Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet
― Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet
Cora’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cora’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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28 friends
3 books
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22 friends
0 books
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16 friends
0 books
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2 friends
2 books
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6 friends
218 books
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91 friends
0 books
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13 friends
14 books
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50 friends
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