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The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

by Hisashi Kashiwai

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Middlemarch

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Eleni’s Quotes

“Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not display.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods

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“Our body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We’re creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to our fellow humans”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

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“Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

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“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

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Victorian-style Dickens Readalong - Bleak House #dickensalong — 291 members — last activity Feb 15, 2019 09:48AM
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A monthly book club where we read classic (old or newish) books and discuss them!