Kat

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Kat’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (171)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (773)
did-not-finish‎ (4)
non-fiction‎ (144)
read-in-2018‎ (83)
favourites‎ (81)

read-in-2017‎ (67)
read-in-2014‎ (62)
owned-tbr‎ (55)
read-in-2023‎ (53)
read-in-2024‎ (48)
read-in-2015‎ (40)
audiobook‎ (38)

read-in-2022‎ (37)
read-in-2025‎ (37)
read-in-2020‎ (36)
read-in-2021‎ (35)
short-stories‎ (31)
read-in-2016‎ (25)
read-in-2011‎ (23)

read-in-2026‎ (23)
poetry‎ (20)
plays‎ (19)
read-in-2013‎ (19)
read-in-2012‎ (15)
read-in-2019‎ (14)

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Kat’s Quotes

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

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“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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“...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: age, flight, life, loss, nostalgia

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