“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
Elena’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Elena’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
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