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“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
“You are a woman, and must begin to live like one. By which I mean: have courage.”
― The Essex Serpent
― The Essex Serpent
“Keep away from the literal-minded folk, and ignore the scoffers.”
― The Secret Commonwealth
― The Secret Commonwealth
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
― Winter
― Winter
“Why do I thrash about, why do I fuss inside this narrow, limited frame, when life, the whole of life, with all its joys, is open to me?”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
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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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