May O'Connell
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Dracula by Bram Stoker The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Lovers by Brian Friel The Painter of Souls by Philip Kazan Plum by Hollie McNish Slug by Hollie McNish
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May’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) by Ransom Riggs
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We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing them becomes too high,
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May’s Quotes

Oscar Wilde
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
135619 likes

Alberto Manguel
“I wanted to live among books.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading
tags: book, books
186 likes

Frank Zappa
“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa
tags: books, humor
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Markus Zusak
“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
― Markus Zusak
tags: book
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The Prophet by Kahlil GibranTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakDracula by Bram Stoker
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Art, Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Spirituality, Thriller, and Travel


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