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Maybe that was just childhood? You hurry up, pick the opposite path, try to make childhood end. Then, as an adult, you have no idea why you were running away. What, exactly, you needed so desperately to get away from.
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“My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.”
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“A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.”
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“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
― Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
― Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Words Between Worlds
— 168 members
— last activity May 07, 2019 01:44AM
Are you looking not only to expand your bookish world and reading diversely? This book club is for anyone interested in expanding their diverse readi ...more
ModCloth's Shelf Life
— 912 members
— last activity Jun 14, 2016 12:49PM
ModCloth is always on the lookout for new and exciting books but we love reliving the classics, too. Everyone is welcome to share with us their thou ...more
WORD Book Club
— 149 members
— last activity Oct 01, 2012 04:07PM
For book lovers who participate in WORD's monthly book club, at our store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. ...more
Epic Reads Book Club
— 2052 members
— last activity Dec 15, 2021 09:11AM
Epic Reads Book Club is a discussion of one YA/teen lit title each month, across all genres. Here’s how it works: Read. Discuss. Repeat. Yup, it’s tha ...more
ARCs Anonymous
— 141 members
— last activity Aug 06, 2018 12:24PM
Do you get loads of ARCs? Do you struggle to read them in time? We've all been here. My name is Avalinah and I'm an ARCoholic. Welcome, fellow bookwor ...more
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