“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― The Uses of Literature
― The Uses of Literature
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― The Living
― The Living
“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
― Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
“A good book is an event in my life.”
― The Red and the Black
― The Red and the Black
“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Jane Eyre
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Jane Eyre
Clary’s 2025 Year in Books
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