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women‎ (600)
2014‎ (185)
2015‎ (167)
2013‎ (103)
2016‎ (65)

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2017‎ (59)
reading-list‎ (51)
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2012‎ (38)

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2020‎ (9)
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Alix’s Quotes

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life

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“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran

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“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: writing

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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
― Sylvia Plath

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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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Alix’s Groups

across the pond book club — 19 members — last activity Jul 01, 2016 07:01AM
Welcome to Across The Pond, a book club/challenge group created by two girls, one that lives in the US and one that lives in the UK. We came together ...more

FINDING AUDREY READ-ALONG — 9356 members — last activity Jul 19, 2018 08:49PM
PASSENGER by ALEXANDRA BRACKEN read-along! Liveshow will be January 30th at 7:00pm EST!

Contemporary Lovers — 902 members — last activity Feb 05, 2018 07:26AM
MARCH AND APRIL PICK: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon The Contemporary Lovers Group is where Book Tubers and Readers of the contemporary genre come toget ...more

Classical Literature Read-Along — 365 members — last activity Nov 04, 2019 03:48AM
Daunted by the thought of picking up your first piece of classical literature? Or already a fan of antiquity's diverse stock of literature and looking ...more

Top 5 Wednesday — 9797 members — last activity Dec 09, 2025 10:01AM
Welcome to the official group page of the T5W! This weekly book meme officiated in November 2013 and is still going strong! Join the group to become a ...more

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