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"10 chapters in, they’re still haven’t gone to the lighthouse. The husband is still craze on his existential crisis." — Jun 18, 2026 07:05AM
"10 chapters in, they’re still haven’t gone to the lighthouse. The husband is still craze on his existential crisis." — Jun 18, 2026 07:05AM
Eighteen and vulnerable, I’d felt for the first time the extraordinary dread of wanting something desperately and watching it slip through my fingers,
“He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”
― Circe
― Circe
“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Circe
― Circe
april’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at april’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
179 books
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2 friends
121 books
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38 friends
14 books
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1 friend
658 books
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124 friends
80 books
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1 friend
78 books
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1 friend
Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Classics, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Young-adult, and gothic
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