2026 Reading Challenge

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    John Berger
    “You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
    ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing
    tags: chauvinism, misogyny, projection, sexism
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “My words are unerring tools of
    destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Bram Stoker
    “Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: dead, dracula
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: adoration, fidelity, love
    1900 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: affection, attraction, love
    1574 likes

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  • #8
    Emily Dickinson
    “This is my letter to the world
    That never wrote to me”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: compassion, people, social-anxiety
    1468 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: art, haunted, house, nature
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    Leonard Cohen
    “In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
    tags: love
    110 likes

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    Leonard Cohen
    “She was made of flesh and eyelashes.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Dear friend, I have searched all night
    through each burnt paper,
    but I fear I will never find
    the formula to let you die”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Let Us Compare Mythologies
    tags: friendship, life-and-death, poetry
    15 likes

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  • #14
    Leonard Cohen
    “Dear Hitler
    Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this”
    ― Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
    tags: poetry-quotes
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Fare thee well my nightingale
    I lived but to be near you
    Though you are singing somewhere still
    I can no longer hear you”
    ― Leonard Cohen, The Flame
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
    tags: poetry-quotes
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    Charles Dickens
    “And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Bleak House
    tags: lady-dedlock
    201 likes

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    Charles Dickens
    “if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Bleak House
    tags: fate, predestination
    49 likes

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    Sylvia Plath
    “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: friendship, humor, shared-ordeal
    2289 likes

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    Sylvia Plath
    “I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: enthralled, obsession, slavery
    2178 likes

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  • #22
    Aristotle
    “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: friendship, soul
    7431 likes

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  • #23
    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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  • #24
    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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  • #25
    Franz Kafka
    “I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: writing
    2822 likes

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: life
    2116 likes

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley
    1296 likes

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  • #30
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    890 likes



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