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“She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.”
― The House of the Spirits
― The House of the Spirits
“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of unknown things. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality”
― The House of the Spirits
― The House of the Spirits
“. . . once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more. The latter is perhaps the truest theory.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
Nora’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nora’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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29 friends
1,197 books
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49 friends
408 books
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18 friends
1 book
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34 friends
170 books
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137 books
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17 friends
27 books
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93 friends
0 books
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105 friends
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