“…. wasn‘t afraid of dying because dying had always been somewhere in our house, somewhere so close, we could feel the wind of it on our cheeks.”
A beautiful MG novel
#CoverStories #Feather 🪶
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“In regular clothes, I'm a nobody,” Dean once reflected. “In a tuxedo, I'm a star.”
#CoverStories #Tuxedo
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“Creator, I was so young when my parents died. Now, I carry sounds without the meaning. Isn‘t that sad?”
#CoverStories #Snake 🐍
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“I was hazy with wine, hazy with Nick. I nestled into my seat and marveled at his endlessness, only inches away, his infinite capacity to shelter me.”
-Beatriz Williams
#CoverStories #Umbrella
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#5JoysFriday on Saturday! @DebinHawaii
1-read the newest Cash Blackbear mystery
2-a new Jenoff novel came to my attention for Mount TBR
3-finished the 25th book in the Botswana Ladies Detective Agency series; the 26th will be out later this year
4-the redbud trees are blooming (they are actually more pink than red)
5-May go to a free philharmonic concert this evening
“Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are
strong enough to lead it!”
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
Here are 6 favorites with #Trees #CoverStories
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“Some things you cannot leave behind. Your history will pursue you doggedly across frontiers and over oceans. It will slip past the unsmiling border guards, fold itself invisibly into the pages of your passport, a silent, treacherous stowaway.”
-Alex George
#CoverStories #Stairs
One of my favorite books 💚
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"In the best of times, I don't do well with change.
These are most definitely not the best of times.
And way, way too much is changing."
#CoverStories #Hammock
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
-George Orwell
#CoverStories #LargeAnimal
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Love the gown covers of the Selection series-
#EveningGown #CoverStories
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#CoverStories
#2SimilarCovers
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(I couldn‘t decide which 2 were the most similar 🤷♀️)
1*. The shrubs outside my window are blooming with delicate flowers
2* Little Bear likes to hug the kitty-cat
3-4* Read 2 more books in the No. 1 Ladies‘ Detective Agency series
5* my dryer of 14 years bit the dust; the new one arrived yesterday
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What I wanted, what I felt owed, was some clear place in the hierarchy of those he loved.
-Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Jobs‘ first child Lisa paints Jobs as a #Narcissist.
#FeelinTheLove
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The Academy Awards Winners for Best Picture In honor of the awards, which will air this Sunday, how many have you seen?
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Apparently I liked the 1970s and 80s movies most!
My brother Frank 1945 - 2018
#FeelinTheLove #BrotherLove
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“This was the kind of night where it would be easy to slip from grace and, honestly, she was tired of the fall. It hurt too much to land.”
#FeelinTheLove #SisterLove 🩵💛💙
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“My mother‘s legacy embodied the brewing of potions to ease maladies, but it also meant preserving the memory of these women in the register—granting them their single, indelible mark on the world.” 🪴🧪 💜🌿
#FeelinTheLove #Potion
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Time flies when you have fun! And even when you don‘t have fun 🤷♀️ Yes we are 5 days until March❣️
Please join us for our March photo challenge: #CoverStories 🥳🤗. Thank you to everyone who played in February 🙏🏻. Cheers 🥂
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“Most people don't think fate has a sound. But it does. Everything has a sound if you listen carefully enough.” This is a lovely read 💙🩵💜
#FeelinTheLove #Lonely
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“You have my whole heart. You always did.”
A terrifying journey through an earth that promises a world of ash, fire and danger, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. To me, a classic
#LoveOnTheRoad #FeelinTheLove
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1- read a recent Kwame Alexander book in verse
2- I am now on Book 18 of the series Number 1 Ladies‘ Detective Agency
3- Snapped this photo of raindrops resting on a web after gentle rainfall
4- House is on the market/bittersweet
5- Winter sweater weather again 🥶
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
“And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.”
-Nora Ephron
#FeelinTheLove #Heartbreak
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“They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.”
#IllicitLoveAffair
#FeelinThelove ❤️🧡💛
—Edith Wharton
“I like the way bones and skin move, and I like seeing how all of the chambers of the heart fit together”
#Hearts #FeelinTheLove
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In Ovid's "Metamorphoses," love and hate are deeply intertwined with the central theme of transformation. The plays A Midsummer Night's Dream (Pyramus&Thisbe)
and Romeo and Juliet (based on Metamorphoses) are more similar than they appear. Both, written at the same time, deal with forbidden romance and power and control. One play having a comedic end, while the other ends in tragedy, are partly the same tale with a different outcome.
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“…one needn‘t be born into a beautiful life in order to have one.”
This book, its setting, my love for the book, and Love itself are all #Timeless
#FeelinTheLove
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1 & 2: house is staged and ready for market
3: my grands - myValentines! who are now adults aged 25 and 20💕
4: On book 13 of series - No. 1 Ladies‘ Detective Agency
5: Little Bear playing piano with 2 hands and a foot
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
I have a special place in my heart for the words of F. S. Fitzgerald, and these two quotes feel right for:
#ValentinesDay
#FeelinTheLove
Happy 💞Day everyone!!
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“Sometimes I got this feeling that we‘d never be close enough. I wanted to climb inside your skin, inside your mind, so I could know all there was to know about you.”
#LoveLost ❤️💔❤️
#FeelinTheLove
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I listened to the audiobook when this first came out, but didn‘t pay attention well… Last year I viewed the series and was blown away by Ewan McGregor‘s characterization of Rostov. Had to read the book again-
#sundayfunday @BookmarkTavern
“It was just the two of us, alone together, showing up. Because that‘s what love does. It shows up.”
Loved this book❣️
#LoveLetters #FeelinTheLove
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“Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no
need to involve your brain.”
~Dave Barry
#Chocolate #FeelinTheLove
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Photo on left is us 11 years ago, though currently his memories of us range between none and occasional haziness. We have essentially started over but in a beautiful way. At his living facility yesterday the activity director brought in fresh flowers/accessories and he made me a valentine bouquet 🩷🌹❤️
I‘m almost finished with book 5 of tagged series and it‘s delightful. Thanks to audiobooks 🎧
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
“He smiles, and the thought that I could have died -- I could have died-- without being smiled sat like this, by this man, has my lips trembling.”
#SteamyLove #FeelinTheLove
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“Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.” 🌹🥀🌹
#Roses #FeelinTheLove
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