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“Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas, it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Angela's Ashes
― Angela's Ashes
“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”
― King Lear
― King Lear
“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”
― Paradise Lost
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”
― Paradise Lost
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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Florence’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Florence’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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36 friends
54 books
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525 books
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295 books
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207 books
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475 books
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151 books
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90 books
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