{"id":4901,"date":"2019-12-31T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2019-11-26T10:45:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:45:35","slug":"end-of-the-year-quotes-to-ponder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2019\/12\/31\/end-of-the-year-quotes-to-ponder\/","title":{"rendered":"End-of-the-Year Quotes to Ponder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4974\" src=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/believe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/believe.png 712w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/believe-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/believe-250x140.png 250w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/believe-450x253.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/>I love quoting quotes! Here are a few I found recently. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><em>What had once been love had eroded, the edges worn away until it was like a small,smooth stone she carried in her pocket and ran her fingers over once in a while. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Miracle Baby by Janice Kay Johnson<\/p>\n<p><em>She read somewhere that first love never truly disappears, that it&#8217;s always there, under the surface, lingering there, waiting like dry tinder that only needs the touch of a match, a spark, to ignite.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wicked Game by Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush<\/p>\n<p><em>Experience is less likely to teach us how to bid our dearest possessions adieu&#8230;for we hold our dearest possessions more closely than our friends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles<\/p>\n<p><em>By engaging in the process (of self-discovery) of becoming more integrated and aware, we learn that the most important relationship is the one we have with\u00a0 ourselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>She hoped until she believed and then she believed until she knew.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Twelve Little Cakes by Dominika Dery<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}