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Melina is Currently Reading

Melina is currently reading

Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology

by Danielle Binks (Goodreads Author)

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May 27, 2017 04:56AM

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Musketeer Space

by Tansy Rayner Roberts (Goodreads Author)

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May 25, 2014 05:51PM

Melina’s Quotes

“The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

tags: behaviour, bitchiness, infertility

27 likes

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

16953 likes

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

18447 likes

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88253 likes

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

9111 likes

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