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"Chapter 7 was painfully boring. I’m getting the urge to just skim read the rest but I guess I’ll continue on." — 6 minutes ago
"Chapter 7 was painfully boring. I’m getting the urge to just skim read the rest but I guess I’ll continue on." — 6 minutes ago
To Ralph the Sienese air was not only breathable but intoxicating. The sun, treading the earth like a vintager, drew from it heady fragrances, crushed out of it new colours. All the values of the temperate landscape were reversed: the noon
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“I was crying for joy, my Sassenach,' he said softly. He reached out slowly and took my face between his hands. "And thanking God that I have two hands. That I have two hands to hold you with. To serve you with, to love you with. Thanking God that I am a whole man still, because of you.”
― Outlander
― Outlander
“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
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“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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“And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.”
― In the Mountains
― In the Mountains
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