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"Giving up is the birth of regret." - Deshauna Barber -

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"Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary." — Siobhan Vivian, Same Difference —

Left to Tell

Title: Left to Tell

Author: Immaculee Ilibagiza with Steve Erwin

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Age Category: Adult Literature

   A heartbreaking and painfully truthful memoir about the Rwandan Holocaust, Immaculee tells a story about how forgiveness is more powerful than holding grudges and how love can overcome hatred.

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"Family is the most important thing in the world." — Princess Diana —

The Dying Christian to His Soul by Alexander Pope

The Dying Christian to His Soul

by Alexander Pope

Vital spark of heav’nly flame!

  Quit, O quit this mortal frame:

  Trembling, hoping, ling’ring, flying,

  O the pain, the bliss of dying!

Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,

And let me languish into life.

  Hark! they whisper; angels say,

  Sister Spirit, come away!

  What is this absorbs me quite?

  Steals my senses, shuts my sight,

Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?

Tell me, my soul, can this be death?

The world recedes; it disappears!

Heav’n opens on my eyes! my ears

  With sounds seraphic ring!

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!

O Grave! where is thy victory?

  O Death! where is thy sting?

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“Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.” – Evan Esar – 

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“Families are like fudge–mostly sweet, with a few nuts.” — Les Dawson —