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Jemima Rose
is currently reading
by David Gibson
bookshelves:
gifts,
spiritual,
physical-tbr,
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non-fiction,
spiritual-tbr,
currently-reading,
adult,
non-fic-tbr,
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Jemima Rose
is currently reading
by Dave Duncan
bookshelves:
my-shelves,
fantasy,
fantasy-tbr,
hist-fic-tbr,
historical-fiction,
physical-tbr,
currently-reading,
adult
“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness — they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means — the only complete realist.”
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“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Shatter Me
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Shatter Me
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“There was no way in hell she was going to move to the southern continent without all of her books.”
― The Assassin's Blade
― The Assassin's Blade
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