“Perfection is for people who are lying to themselves.” Waiting for the rest of my carpool!

“We barely get any time on this planet. Do not spend it pleasing other people. Fuck politeness. Live life exactly how you want to live it so you can live the life you make for yourself.”

“Knowledge not shared remains unknown.”

“Sometimes you learn more from losing than you do from winning. When you lose, you learn how to keep going.”

I may be almost 50 years old but I do love this series

“We snack as compulsively as serial killers kill.” Wonderful words to hear while I am in training and bored out of my skull!

Finally finished this one. Another hit for the Library Lovers series. With working two jobs and maintaining a household, I don‘t have much time to read but I try to carve out time for my cozy crimes. I really enjoy the small town atmosphere and the craftnoon ladies. I wish I had something like that in BFE Missouri!

“May we never forget. May we live with honor at all times, regardless of our circumstances. And may we choose love, a weapon that will defeat hate every single time. Love is the resistance.”

Haven‘t been on here in awhile. I just haven‘t felt like reading, which isn‘t like me. I can usually be found with a book in my hand but lately I think the stress of having a full time job and a part time job and a household to take care of I finally catching up with me. I think I will spend sometime tonight enjoying this one

I remember watching this movie when I was a kid, early 80s. I hadn‘t known it was a book until recently. So far, really good!

“For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone.”

“Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn‘t”

“Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.”

“Sometimes light illuminates things that are better left in the dark.”

Looks promising. Endorsed by Rick Riordan so should t be too awful. Here‘s to good book and time on my hands!

Oh my goodness! Love everything in here. Saw Snape and squealed like a little girl! Thank you, thank you @OriginalCyn620 for the awesome books and pops. And thanks to @JenlovesJT47 for the swap. Can‘t wait to do another one! #Funkopopswap. #FPS

I‘ll say this about it, truly a story of a megalomaniac child molester. Warren Jeff should have been castrated as soon possible and been given a directive to have no contact with the outside world from his prison cell. To think that he still holds sway over the “church” is a joke. That “church” is simply a cult that segregated women and allows pedophiles to run rampant.

My salvation in a time of mandatory training!!

Well, at least it got here...gotta day the USP service managed that if nothing else. Now, the wait begins! #FPS

Although I am going to give this a “pick me” rating, I have two words for the ending...Not Happy! I enjoyed the authors twists but I did not see them coming and some of them were a little far fetched. And now I ha e to wait for a resolution...I want it now!!!

“Heroes‘ names are remembered forever,” he added, “but an old man‘s name is soon forgotten.”

#funkopopswap. 1. Keep them in the box! 2. Collect mostly sets but sometimes will get one that catches my fancy. 3. Remus Lupin, Snape, Boggart as Snape, Deadpool Duck and Scooby Dum. 4. Halo, 5 nights at Freddie‘s, Zorn, any of the “gaming” ones and Cupheads. 5. Have two, Harry Potter and Maleficent so not opposed.

“Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.”

“How wise of the founders to hide a kernel of truth within something so absurd. Who among the rational would search for it there.”

“A sense of humor, no matter how dark, is always a good thing”

“I guess whoever holds the torch casts the darkest shadow.”

"Science could not explain the power of live or hope." Hope this gets me through training!

"Great evil can only be fought by the strong. People need spiritual fuel as much as they need food, water and air. Happiness, love, joy, hope - these are the emotions that give us the strength to do what we must do."

"public opinion can often be swayed by emotion with little regard for facts. If the story is fascinating enough, facts may not matter to those hearing it."

"There comes a time when refusing to stop violence can no longer be called nonviolence. We cease to be objectors and become bystanders. At some point, morality must be wedded to action, or else it's no more than mere vanity."

"Nobody learns anything new without failing the first few times they try. You have to face that and figure out how to get back up again. That means learning how to fail is the most important lesson of all."

"The man who would not disgrace himself must be strong"

"Such is the fact that awaits all celebrities, poor dears. Waiting for an audience either no longer living or barely interested, making every effort to seem upbeat as they await the day when their fans will return to them, their current indifference having been merely s result of some temporary misunderstanding soon to be resolved."

"I do not want to take part in my life. It can just go on without me; I'm not giving it any help. I don't want to see it, I don't want to talk to it, I don't want it anywhere near me. It takes too much energy. I refuse to be a part of it"

Okay, yes this is a middle reader book but so are Rick Riordan's books and the Harry Potter series and I loved those so who cares. I enjoyed this although the main character was slightly bratty and whiny. She's 12 so there's that. I look forward to reading some more of Hahn's books.

Started this today...luckily my job (prison) allows me to listen to "music" while I work (listening to whiny offenders) and I just have to thank the gods that man invented audiobooks! Three in one week and no plans to stop!

Today's boredom breaker!

"Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization, so we have to put more hope into the world than despair. Hatred and separation and building walls is not the way to profess. Going backward is not the way to go forward."

"In different societies we create our own rules about clothing and makeup and ornamentation. I've just come to the conclusion that all women should wear whatever they want to wear and that all men should wear whatever they want to wear. If they have a problem with that, they should take it up with the United Nations."
What I do while I'm stuck in mandatory training!

"Wasps are the SS of the flying-stinging brigade. Bees make honey and wasps make nothing-just attack small children. I don't know what wasps do. If there is a god, why would he create wasps? Apparently they do something to flies, but they're not doing it very well....Wasps are actually like the Borg from Star Trek."

"What you do in life--what you do to add to the human existence--that is what matters. That is the beautiful thing"

Okay another one before I go to bed..."Stinging nettles are the Nazis of the weed world"

I'm enjoying this book. So much like his stand up! "If there is a god they need to come down to Earth and explain WWII, Hitler, bowel cancer and Croc shoes. But no god has ever come to Earth."

"Belief or, more likely, self-belief, is central to what I have done, and that probably applies to anyone whose life could be deemed unusual. But I do also know self-belief can be used in a good or a bad way: some people with tremendous self-belief are complete psychotic mass murderers."

"Vast wealth does have a certain appeal."

What a great way to spend a shift at work! Reading this!

So far, I'm really enjoying this months selection for a local bookclub

"It takes a heroic figure to rewrite history so that future generations might know the truth and benefit from his sacrifice."
Late night reading......

"Dead men's words are so much more powerful than those of the living"