Monica

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Monica is Currently Reading

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This Story Might Save Your Life

by Tiffany Crum (Goodreads Author)

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May 24, 2026 12:44PM

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

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Jun 05, 2025 12:57PM

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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

by Hilary Mantel

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Monica’s Quotes

“What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

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“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so. ”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

tags: books

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