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"It is love that illuminates the world--not grief"~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Everything passes, everything changes--except for art. AML

How alone we are--C & I--in the midst of our fame! He doesn't mind but I do. AML

"I feel a hunger for the kind of writing that I feel is truly mine: observation plus reflection."-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I am setting this aside to finish Hemingway.

"There was a feeling of being between the sea and the sky." ~Heminway

" He had already learned that there was only one day at a time and it was always the day you were in. "

"Why is love intensified by absence?"~Time Travelers Wife

a lot of *ands... at the war section now. liking James Joyce book more. Fun to alternate them.

really enjoying this book.

"That was the smell of the air and rain and turf and corduroy." James Joyce

*quote from early pages. "He thought that he was sickvin his heart if you could be sick in that place."

liking it from a distance

"Perhaps a happy marriage was not caused so much by fate, I thought, as by our response to it." ~Land od Dreams KK

"Instead of gaining solace from my grief, the grief itself had become my solace." ~Land of Dreams by Kate Kerrigan

Wonderful memoir that captures the cycles of life. A spirit dog named Marley brings crazy time and fun times to a family in Florida. I enjoyed this book.

"A person can learn a few things from an old dog." ~Marley and Me

"People could be certifiably nuts, and as best we could figure, so could dogs."~Marley and Me

"People could be certifiably nuts, and as best we could figure, so could dogs."~Marley and Me

Excited to read Land of Dreams.

I've had this book for awhile & am now just reading it. I never saw the movie. So, this memoir should be fun to read.

A novel that stirred memories of my childhood farm back in Missouri. Bittersweet, mysterious, yet engrained in characters that feel as real as your next neighbor. DARE I say it topped Cee Cee? I cried my eyes out during the scene with Stella & Teddi & Momma's ashes...

"Then human mind holds tight to those things it can't reconcile." BH

"But most of all, to stand here was to feel forgiven." ~BH