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Slower methodical reading. Like the voice of Screwtape. Brilliant

I started this book about a week ago, and am just loving it. Mary Kay Andrews writes with authority on her characters, which makes this book such a fab. read.

I am rereading Phyllis Theoux - Night Lights again. I needed a good read so went for my favorite. Sometimes when you re-read a book, you discover new. aspects you missed the first time around. The Journal Keeper is my favorite book...at least one of them.

"Sometimes the smallest connections are the biggest ones of all."

Luanne writes real characters that transcend the page. I love Roo & Tilly. And just made it to Boston in the book.

"She was a girl of passion and regrets."

Breezing through this with ease and delight. A Jane Austin & Zombie fan, how could I not find this utterly entertaining? Can't wait to finish.

I am loving the sequel. After all, life isn't a fairytale. The sequel feels 'real' like what would really happen to Louisa. Lily just showed up and the daughter is a lovely surprise, drama and all. My favorite seen was when Mr. Traynor met Will's daughter. & Louisa falling off the....

She felt almost swollen with a joy that spilled over into every part of her life.

"Tell her happiness is just practice," he said. "If only she acted happy, she would be happy."

Above us the sky had become endless and infinite.

"You're twenty-six years old Clark. You should be out there, claiming the world as your own, getting in trouble in bars, showing off your strange wardrobe to dodgy men..."

"Let me get this straight. You think a teaspoon of a carrot would improve the quality of my life?"

"See habibity? No matter what happens in life we can take a new shape and be better."

Observing the eight limbs in the practice of Ashtanga Yoga is crucial if you are to taste the fruits of the tree of yoga.

I was sweating in a closed-up house but too afraid to open a window.

Loving this book. Maybe one of my favorite memoirs ever.

PT in Norman,Oklahoma after Manhattenville college. Her future husband just flew in to see her from a trip in Texas #memoir #phyllistheroux

PT is now in college at Manhattenville. I am loving this memoir.

If I were always directly beneath the sun, I would always be safe.

"We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence." #quotes #PhyllisTheroux

Phyllis Theroux is my favorite non fiction writer. My Journal Keeper is her most recent. What a poignant storyteller with keen observation.

Reading Phyllis Theroux is always very grounding to my soul. When I need reflection and rest, I read Phyllis Theroux.

Tragic and brutal. A headache from the ending.

And me? I was still smiling.

The crowd was mostly dying and there weren't any strawberries.

"He rid us of our desires for fads and left us with the universals: that when language breaks down, violence enters, and that a writer speaks for those who have no voice.'-Re: John Hersey

'I think I am beginning to understand something about it." He died in the night. -Renoir's last words before he died. He had just completed WOMAN BATHERS, which hangs in the Louvre