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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all).

Ashley’s Quotes

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
― Thomas Hobbes

tags: life-lessons, mistakes

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“You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: mistakes

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“Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.”
― Marcia Lynn McClure, The Whispered Kiss

tags: beast, beauty, healing, mistakes, romance, scars, wounds

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“If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do," said Magnus, still looking at Alec, "you will never learn from your mistakes.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: mistakes, mortal-instruments

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“God knows I'm not perfect, either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I've done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself
-Misato Katsuragi”
― Hideaki Anno, Groundwork of Evangelion Vol.1

tags: imperfection, mistakes, sin

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Libri Labra Book Club — 120 members — last activity Apr 12, 2025 05:14PM
In November 2016, a couple of days after Donald Trump won the presidential election, I attended YALLFest in South Carolina for the first time. The air ...more

BookClubFiction — 284 members — last activity Mar 15, 2024 08:59AM
An online bookclub devoted to Fiction of all kinds! Open to anyone who'd like to join, we are a no-pressure club all about reading fiction together. ...more

Vaginal Fantasy Book Club — 16266 members — last activity 9 hours, 20 min ago
Forum for the Vaginal Fantasy Book Club hosted by Felicia Day, Veronica Belmont, Kiala Kazebee and Bonnie Burton. From January 2012 to April 2018, the ...more