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Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)

by Amie Kaufman (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: stars-5, owned-hardcopy, audience-young-adult, read-2018, read-2016, currently-reading

Reading for the 4th time

read in October 2016

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Feb 27, 2018 01:53PM

“I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Lauren." He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers.
"Oh God, some guy's using that line on you, isn't he?"
"Not just 'some guy'." I tell him. "The guy.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

tags: p-228, qtd-francesca-and-her-dad-robert

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“Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

tags: p-166

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“Tomorrow will be better.”
“But what if it’s not?” I asked.
“Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

tags: inspiration

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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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