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Ren is Currently Reading

Ren is currently reading

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

by Jung Chang

bookshelves: currently-reading, asian-lit, autobiography-memoirs, history, non-fiction, banned-books

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— Aug 11, 2020 10:18PM

Aug 08, 2020 08:30PM

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Mao: The Unknown Story

by Jung Chang

bookshelves: currently-reading, asian-lit, audio-books, banned-books, biographies, history, non-fiction

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Aug 08, 2020 08:33PM

Ren’s Quotes

“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

tags: gemma, libba-bray

551 likes

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

tags: fear-of-unknown

2434 likes

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

tags: life

6793 likes

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: love

12004 likes

“There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

tags: choice

767 likes

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