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“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.”
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“Like a weary bird flying out over the most desolate sea, I finally had a place to land.”
― Fable
― Fable
“...we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“Things here were new, clean, better. But there were days when he felt he had traded his life for somebody else’s and gotten the wrong size.”
― Everyone Knows You Go Home
― Everyone Knows You Go Home
Short & Sweet Treats
— 1260 members
— last activity Dec 15, 2021 04:49AM
Welcome to Short & Sweet Treats! We are here to read books together, engage in discussions, and have fun. We play lots of games and read lots of go ...more
The Seasonal Reading Challenge
— 9082 members
— last activity 29 minutes ago
Do you want to broaden your reading horizons and discover new books, authors and genres? Do you love reading challenges? Do you live for competition? ...more
Middle East/North African Lit
— 2406 members
— last activity Dec 19, 2025 01:23PM
Current banner photo : Gaza at Palestine #Land day https://altahrir.wordpress.com/2020/02/04/land-in-eastern-gaza-declared-a-disaster-zone-due-to-isr ...more
Around the World
— 1887 members
— last activity 22 hours, 24 min ago
Each year we look at our to-be-read shelves and choose which countries of the world we want to travel through. Some of our members map their journeys ...more
The World's Literature in Europe
— 873 members
— last activity Dec 13, 2025 09:20PM
Literature from the many languages of Europe: Turkey -Musatalasli, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. "Cotton miller of Kültür Turkey" -H005, CC ...more
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