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Eileen walked back to the apartment that night and found Alice on the sofa, working on her book. Alice, she said, am I going to have to live in the real world one day? Without looking up, Alice snorted and said: Jesus no, absolutely not.
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“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Tess Durberyfield at this time of her life was a mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience”
― Tess of The D'Urbervilles
― Tess of The D'Urbervilles
“I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
Alexa’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alexa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
582 books
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15 friends
445 books
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24 friends
249 books
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18 friends
258 books
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24 friends
511 books
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107 friends
501 books
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27 friends
96 books
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19 friends
1,033 books
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11 friends
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