“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“Somebody" said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.”
― Cold Comfort Farm
― Cold Comfort Farm
Adela’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Adela’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Book Club, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Philosophy, gothic, historical, magical-realism, and vampires
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