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The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)

by Freida McFadden (Goodreads Author)

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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

bookshelves: classics, currently-reading

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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

by Jeff Vandermeer (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: sci-fi, currently-reading

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“But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: romantic

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“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: words

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“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

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“What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: determination, empowerment, independence, interference, judgment, persuasion, self-determination, strength, weakness

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