“I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there's not much you can do about inherited traits.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“Don't try to make me grow up before my time…”
― Little Women
― Little Women
Reading the Classics
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This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more
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