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“Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.”
― Julian Barnes, Talking It Over

tags: childhood

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“Nobody gave you to me. Nobody said that’s the one for you. I picked you out. Wrong time, yep, and doing wrong by my wife. But the picking out, the choosing. Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. And I made up my mind to follow you too.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

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“There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.”
― Julian Barnes, Talking It Over

tags: tender-heart, violence

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“Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: happiness, master

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“But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting.”
― Julian Barnes, Talking It Over

tags: memory

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Jane Austen — 5337 members — last activity Dec 20, 2025 04:06PM
Established July 2007. Readers of Jane, gather here to discuss anything from Frank Churchill's secrets to Lady Catherine's whims. What finally "persua ...more

The chronicles of Narnia — 139 members — last activity Apr 01, 2017 09:39AM
a cool mystical place where you make and create your very own character.and relive The chronicles of narnia like never before!

The Chronicles of Narnia — 48 members — last activity Jul 30, 2016 04:14PM
For people who read the books , and loved them. And for people who have seen the movies

C. S. Lewis Fans — 75 members — last activity Aug 31, 2013 01:36AM
C. S. Lewis is a well known and loved author. Some of his greatest books being The Screwtape Letters and The Chronicles of Narnia series.