The Beauty Of All Literature

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mariana By Susanna Kearsley

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The past is very seductive…really it’s the present that’s in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That’s why people often get stuck there.

Perpetual Kindness

Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people more beautiful than perpetual kindness. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Just Carrying On

Sometimes carrying, just carrying on, is a superhuman achievement. ~ Albert Camus

The Old Man And The Sea By Ernest Hemingway

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In this tale of inward struggle and personal triumph, an old fisherman reaches within the depths of himself to fight the good fight and wrestle with the fish of his dreams alone on the ocean.

An Open Broken Heart

You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken. ~ Alice Walker

Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

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But then a better thought occurred, and this was the one I carried away with me that day: If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?