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“…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.”
― Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
― Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
“I can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. It’s written so deeply upon my mind I can almost taste the ink.”
― Burial Rites
― Burial Rites
“Our president looks like a Christmas ham and talks like Chucky. We're America, bitch.”
― Quichotte
― Quichotte
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Romania
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Grupul Romania, deschis tuturor celor de nationalitate romana, rudelor si prietenilor acestora, indiferent de unde sunt, locuiesc, traiesc prin lume. ...more
Read a book from each country
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I thought this would be a good place to collect recommendations for books from various countries. I don't have a formal goal to read a book from each ...more
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