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“How wonderful, to walk half drunk with a Lemonsoda on a muggy night like this around the gleaming slate cobblestones of Rome with someone's arm around me.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“People will hunt obsessively for months or even years to find the right home to live in. When it comes to love though, they expect their future soulmate to appear out of thin air as they enter the next bar or club they go to.”
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“Life is a fight, and I like a good soldier.”
― Jo's Boys
― Jo's Boys
“The room is warm and smells like dust, and just the presence of so many books makes it easier to breathe. It’s remarkable how being around books, even those you’ve never read, can have a calming effect, like walking into a crowded party and finding it full of people you know.”
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
“Oh, woman, woman! (...) Thou art a mystery, an abyss, and he who thinks to know thee is totally mad.”
― Mauprat
― Mauprat
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