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When I thought of stepping forward and hugging him, I shuddered. He could just as well be crawling with maggots for how close I wanted to get to him. I realized that with curiosity. It had been that way for as long as I could remember.
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“When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.”
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“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.”
― Confessions of an English Opium Eater
― Confessions of an English Opium Eater
“Envy is the religion of the mediocre.”
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“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.”
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“For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter
that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”
― Sonnets to Orpheus
that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”
― Sonnets to Orpheus
The Evil Book Club of Evil
— 16 members
— last activity Aug 15, 2016 09:10AM
All evil books. All the time. BYOB (Bring Your Own Book).
Susan’s 2025 Year in Books
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Art, Book Club, Chick-lit, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, Young-adult, and War
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