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It was odd, she supposed, that a vicar would teach a child her letters using a bird book rather than the Bible, but whenever she’d visited him, they had watched the birds that had come to feed on the crumbs he’d left out, and he’d recited
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“In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.” - Out of Solitude”
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“It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.”
― Mrs. Miniver
― Mrs. Miniver
“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“We are not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.”
― The Tea Rose
― The Tea Rose
“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
English Mysteries Club
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This is a book club where we will share our current reads in ebooks, regular books, audiobooks, graphic novels and more. This is where we can all shar ...more
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In this group, you will find great literature by British female authors. Recently we have added in female authors from other countries also. The books ...more
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