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Ellen is Currently Reading

Ellen is currently reading

Where the Axe Is Buried

by Ray Nayler (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: alternate-reality-alternate-histori, dystopia, novels, currently-reading

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read in May 2025

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— May 03, 2025 03:10PM

May 17, 2025 02:33PM

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My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry That Led to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

by Nora Titone

bookshelves: history, non-fiction, currently-reading

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— Feb 10, 2023 09:58PM

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Ellen’s Quotes

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

tags: humor, sadness

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“Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End

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“You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.”
― John Rogers

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“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: smile

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“I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.

There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes?

I know you are unable to imagine this.

Nevertheless, I can tell you that you will awake someday to find that your life has rushed by at a speed at once impossible and cruel. The most intense moments will seem to have occurred only yesterday and nothing will have erased the pain and pleasure, the impossible intensity of love and its dog-leaping happiness, the bleak blackness of passions unrequited, or unexpressed, or unresolved.”
― Meg Rosoff, What I Was

tags: age, death, endings, life, love, passage, passions, time

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