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Paper Ghosts

by Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author)

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Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)

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Beckey’s Notes & Highlights

The Answer Is No by Fredrik Backman

7 highlights

Because people aren’t supposed to be happy, they’re only supposed to want to be happy, because how otherwise are you supposed to be able to sell things to them?

The Life Impossible

by Matt Haig

15 highlights
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

by Brom

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Beckey’s Quotes

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: advice, future, life, self-determination

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“And all shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of things shall be exceeding well.”
― Julian of Norwich

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“Man invents nothing God did not create first.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

tags: god, man

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“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

tags: faith, thankfulness

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“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”
― Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

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