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Katherine is Currently Reading

Katherine is currently reading

Murder in Highbury (Emma Knightley Mysteries, #1)

by Vanessa Kelly (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 17, 2026 03:16PM

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City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University

by Nicholas B. Dirks

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Katherine’s Quotes

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

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“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books

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“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: gatsby, paradise

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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge

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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

tags: death, love

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