Gloria

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Gloria is Currently Reading

Gloria is currently reading

El Misterio De La Lavandería De Yeonnam-dong

by Kim Jiyun

bookshelves: 2026, contemporary, slice-of-life, asia, 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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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

by Lindsay C. Gibson

bookshelves: 2026, contemporary, nn-fiction, v-o, wbw, currently-reading

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Gloria’s Quotes

“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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“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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“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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“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: inspirational, women

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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

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