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Maddy
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“You are a woman, and must begin to live like one. By which I mean: have courage.”
― The Essex Serpent
― The Essex Serpent
“That’s what I dislike most of all in people – cold irony. It’s a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can’t experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others.”
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“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you - you'd forget me.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“To be something, to have status in society, to be born at the centre of things, to live through momentous times, to be part of the world’s anthology of stories - if only in the gap between the lines, between the words, between the letters, or even in the minute blank space inside the lower-case ‘e’, just once in that dauntingly long book; could there be any more human desire than that? Don’t we all long to be something, to feel that we exist, that others notice our existence, for the brief space of time that we are here?”
― Codex 1962
― Codex 1962
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Maddy’s 2025 Year in Books
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Classics, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Philosophy, Poetry, Travel, Ballet, Magical Realism, Mythology, Greek Mythology, Eccentric, European History, French Literature, Russian Literature, Czech Literature, Eastern European Literature, Space Opera, Magic, Soviet Fiction, and Soviet Literature
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