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“Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought — and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

tags: letters-to-vera, love

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“Some days are worse than others, my love, some days better than most.”
― Melina Marchetta, Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil

tags: happiness, life

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“I’m walking out now into the soft light, the cooling him of evening, and I will love you tonight, and tomorrow, and still many more, so very many tomorrows.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

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“And Bish thought it strange that seventeen-year-old girls who had sex with idiot boys could still cry like babies for their fathers.”
― Melina Marchetta, Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil

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“She still held sorrows, but she was not made of them. Her life was not a tragedy. It was a history, and it was hers.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

tags: history, life, sorrow, tess, tragedy

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This group is for everyone who loves to write anything fiction. If you're an author, you want to be an author, or you just love to write, anyone is we ...more

Ask Melina Marchetta - Tuesday, April 30th! — 391 members — last activity May 20, 2013 01:48AM
Join us on Tuesday, April 30th for a special discussion with novelist Melina Marchetta! Melina will be discussing her newest book Quintana of Charyn ( ...more

John Green. — 812 members — last activity Dec 20, 2024 06:33AM
Anything and everything pertaining to John Green and his greatness.

Mortal Instruments & Infernal Devices Lovers! — 5388 members — last activity Feb 11, 2026 08:16AM
This group is for people who love the Mortal Instruments and the Infernal Devices! You can discuss your favorite characters what you thought of the bo ...more

A Killer (Re)Read - The Throne of Glass Series Readalong — 1265 members — last activity Sep 02, 2019 02:28AM
Join us in summer 2014 as we read the first two books in Sarah J. Maas's bestselling series--Throne of Glass and Crown of Midnight--in advance of the ...more

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