Author: The Bookend Diner
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Emily’s House
“Change is the one thing that can be counted on in life, and it’s no different if a person’s rich or poor.”
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The Heart Principle
“I have to choose. I can spend my time trying to make her accept me, either through bending her will or bending her to mine, or I can accept myself and focus on other things. How do I want to spend my life?”
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My Sweet Girl
“It’s not real. I kept telling myself. She’s not real. But things that don’t feel real during the day have a way of sliding into bed with you at night.”
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Slow Fire Burning
“Those people who think they have all the power, who think that we have none, we could prove them wrong. We should show them that we can be powerful too. You up here in your shabby tower, me down there on the water, we may not live in elegant homes, we might night have expensive haircuts and foreign holidays and good art on the walls, but that doesn’t make us nothing.”
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Apples Never Fall
“The past could look very different depending on where you stopped to look at it.”
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Broken Little Believer
“These are moments where dignity, compassion, and humanity come shining through someone who has known pain, suffering, and loneliness. We chose to learn from those experiences rather than ignoring them..”
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All the Light We Cannot See
“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”
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The Show Girl & Pineapple Upside Down Cake
The Show Girl & Pineapple Upside Down Cake The Show Girl by Nicola Harrison follows Olive McCormick in 1927 as she moves from Minneapolis to New York City in search of fame. When I first started reading this book, I had one thing in mind — what would pair perfectly with a story set during […]
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July Wrap-Up
I beat my all-time record by reading 19 books this month and I’m pretty proud of myself. I also managed to read 3 books that have been on my shelf for too long, 1 book of the month and 1 reread. I will call that a win!
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Dark Roads
“No one wakes up thinking, I’m going to die on a dark road tonight, but that’s the point, isn’t it? You’re young and free, with your entire life ahead of you… Then, all of a sudden, you meet the wrong person, and it’s over.”
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Gone for Good
“Death is everywhere, all the time. It’s on the ballfields and at the supermarket and hiding under the bed at night, just like we feared when we were little kids. Hell it’s probably riding right here in the car with us, waiting for the opportunity..”
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The Night She Disappeared
“In black marker, someone had scribbled the words ‘Dig Here’ with an arrow pointing downwards into the soil.”
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Isn’t It Bromantic?
“People only let misunderstandings linger when they’re afraid to talk about them.. or when they’re too afraid to hear the truth.”
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The Lights of Sugarberry Cove
“Perhaps if you stopped looking for the meaning to life, you’d really that there is no meaning other than to live a meaningful life. Love your life.”
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The Book of Accidents
“What I know is that life is strange. It’s full of mistakes and regrets, and our minds are very good at bringing those out at the worst of times, the times when we’re most vulnerable. Like dreams. The best we can do.. is to figure out how to move forward. How we correct the errors we made to give some peace to ourselves.. and to those we may have hurt.”
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All the Lonely People
All the Lonely People Genre: Fiction Pub Date: 7.13.21 Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Thank you, Grand Central Publishing, for gifting me this beautiful book! {partner} Here’s a book I think everyone should read or listen to on audio (the narrator is 💯 ). But in all seriousness, this book is going to be one of my […]
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Together We Will Go
“As long as there’s even a possibility of being happy for five minutes today, or the next day, or the one after that, then it’s worth hanging on.”
The Bookend Diner 