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My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That’s why we have to give power to those who do not want it.
“Phases of her childhood lurked in her aspect still. As she walked along to-day, for all her bouncing handsome womanliness, you could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkle from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then. Yet”
― Tess of the D'Urbervilles
― Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
“To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.”
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“There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shake with blind affection. My mind begs you to ask it something so it can obey.”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
“Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects
of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a
faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me now
to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half
fancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it was
folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was
comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.”
― Jane Eyre
of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a
faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me now
to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half
fancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it was
folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was
comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.”
― Jane Eyre
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A Forever Young Adult (FYA) chapter book club located in Chicago. We meet once a month to discuss the book of the month as well as other YA/books we a ...more
Sneha’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sneha’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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