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The worst part about sex with Matt was that it felt like he was doing something to me, rather than with me. It made me think about bad times when other bad people had done things to me, and I hated being put in that position. So, I ...more

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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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“Se dice que en toda manada de lobos hay un perro al que la loba mata, porque si lo deja vivir al crecer devoraría a los demás cachorros. Dad un rostro humano a este perro hijo de loba y tendréis el retrato de aquel hombre.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

tags: los-miserables, victor-hugo

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“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

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“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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“But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

tags: heroes, humans, monsters, villains

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Un pequeño hueco de Goodreads para programar lecturas mensuales, compartir recomendaciones, hablar sobre cómics, diversas adaptaciones y fanfiction (e ...more

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This group now has a Discord! https://discord.gg/QC8vCNfzKa I would encourage everyone to join as it will become a primary hub for book-of-the-month d ...more

Read the Movie — 846 members — last activity Jun 27, 2025 11:20PM
This group has been created to discuss books that have been or are being adapted into movies. This group was originally started for an in-life book cl ...more

Radio Patio — 4417 members — last activity Jan 03, 2026 02:23PM
Grupo para reunir a los lectores de habla hispana que están en Goodreads. En este grupo encontrarás retos, autopromociones, recomendaciones, reseñas y ...more

Should have read classics — 1119 members — last activity Apr 17, 2020 07:38PM
This is a group that is reading some of the classics that maybe we should have read but we got so turned off by "classics" we had to read in high scho ...more

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