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Madison’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1627)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (289)

did-not-finish‎ (1)
unread-and-owned‎ (65)
my-childhood‎ (178)

priority-reads‎ (44)
owned‎ (35)
required-reading‎ (32)

i-cried‎ (9)

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Madison’s Quotes

“She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

tags: dreams, edna-pontellier, kate-chopin, mgg, the-awakening, wandering

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“He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side?”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“The privilege of quitting their society when they ceased to be entertaining.”
― Kate Chopin

tags: humor

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“Bea insists that everyone who works in a bookstore wants to be a writer, but Henry's never fancied himself a novelist. Sure, he's tried putting pen to paper, but it never really works. He can't find the words, the story, the voice. Can't figure out what he could possibly add to so many shelves. Henry would rather be a storykeeper than a storyteller.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

tags: novelist, reader, readership, reading, writing

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