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It is possible that one day, when time has wearied remembrance and restored the ruins, wise men will tell us that we were mistaken and that our standpoint was not lofty enough; but they will say it because they will no longer know what we
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“Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“A peace lover is someone who enjoys the absence of conflict, but a peacemaker is someone who is proactively engaged in works of reconciliation in every sphere of life, from the personal to the global. That”
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
“the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are.”
― Varina
― Varina
“Civilization balances always on a keen and precarious point, a showman spinning a fine Spode dinner plate on a long dowel slender as a stem of hay. A puff of breath, a moment’s lost attention, and it’s all gone, crashed to ruination, shards in the dirt. Then mankind retreats to the caves, leaving little behind but obelisks weathering to nubs like broken teeth, dissolving to beach sand.”
― Varina
― Varina
“After years of loss and reflection, your old deluded decisions click together like the works of a watch packed tight within its case--many tiny, turning, interlocking wheels....the force of every decision transferring gear to gear, wheel to wheel, each one motivating a larger energy going in no direction but steep downward to darkness at an increasing pitch. And then one morning the world resembles Noah's flood, stretching unrecognizable to the horizon and you wonder how you go there. One thing for sure, it wasn't from a bad throw of dice or runes or an unfavorable turn of cards. Blame falls hard and can't be dodged by the guilty.”
― Varina
― Varina
The Emma M. Lion Appreciation Society
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A place to discuss our love for The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, The Q, and any and all other masterpieces written by Beth Brower! Feel free t ...more
Close Reads - Unofficial
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A group for the Close Reads podcast
Marissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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