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“the general state of mind in which I had indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told, in her own quiet way a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;—I pronounced judgment to this effect:— That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.”
― Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition
― Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition
“Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.”
― The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.”
― The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“The day drags through though storms keep out the sun;
And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on:
Even as a broken mirror, which the glass
In every fragment multiplies; and makes
A thousand images of one that was,
The same, and still the more, the more it breaks;
And thus the heart will do which not forsakes,
Living in shattered guise, and still, and cold,
And bloodless, with its sleepless sorrow aches,
Yet withers on till all without is old,
Showing no visible sign, for such things are untold.”
― The Complete Poetical Works of Byron
And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on:
Even as a broken mirror, which the glass
In every fragment multiplies; and makes
A thousand images of one that was,
The same, and still the more, the more it breaks;
And thus the heart will do which not forsakes,
Living in shattered guise, and still, and cold,
And bloodless, with its sleepless sorrow aches,
Yet withers on till all without is old,
Showing no visible sign, for such things are untold.”
― The Complete Poetical Works of Byron
Sabine’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sabine’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
157 books
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4 friends
235 books
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613 books
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398 books
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10 friends
190 books
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6 friends
132 books
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16 friends
51 books
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13 friends
31 books
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4 friends
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Favorite Genres
Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery, Poetry, Romance, Spirituality, Thriller, and Young-adult
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