Gloria

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Gloria is Currently Reading

Gloria is currently reading

V for Vendetta

by Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2026, dystopian, graphic-novel, sxx, v-o, currently-reading

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— Jul 11, 2026 08:27AM

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Escape Routes for Beginners

by Kira Cochrane

bookshelves: 2026, coming-of-age, contemporary, family-saga, v-o, wbw, currently-reading

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Dioses de jade y sombra

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2026, américa, aventuras, contemporary, v-o, wbw, ya, currently-reading

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Gloria’s Quotes

“Until recently, I didn’t think that humans could choose
loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

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“Life is one long process of getting tired.”
― Samuel Butler

tags: life

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“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
― Graham Greene, Ways of Escape

tags: escape, life, therapy, writing

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