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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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“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

tags: inspirational

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“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: adulthood, childhood

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“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
― Virginia Woolf

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“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: egotism, zaphod-beeblebrox

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“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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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 — 851 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 — 4514 members — last activity Jul 14, 2026 05:37PM
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 — 1113 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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