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Middlemarch

by George Eliot

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Eleni’s Quotes

“You can be in love and you can be in a relationship. But they’re not always the same thing.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

tags: being-in-love, love, relationship, relationships

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

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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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“When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake

tags: listening

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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

tags: happy

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Basic book club setup: Each month a new book and each month we will discuss the previous month's book. Discussions will likely contain SPOILERS! Fun ...more

BooktubeSFF Awards — 1683 members — last activity Jun 01, 2021 12:01PM
A group for discussing the BooktubeSFF Awards and associated readalongs. To learn more about the awards have a look at the website: http://booktubesff ...more

Victorian-style Dickens Readalong - Bleak House #dickensalong — 288 members — last activity Feb 15, 2019 09:48AM
So welcome to a Victorian-style Dickens readalong, run by me, Katie from Books and Things. Following on from our reading of Dickens's Our Mutual Frie ...more

Readers Inc. - Monthly Book Club! — 472 members — last activity Feb 25, 2017 06:36PM
A monthly book club where we read classic (old or newish) books and discuss them!