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That was what I’d always loved about reading, what had driven me to write in the first place. That feeling that a new world was being spun like a spiderweb around you and you couldn’t move until the whole thing had revealed itself to you.

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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

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“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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DIVERGENT FAN CLUB — 2089 members — last activity Nov 02, 2025 07:51PM
ONE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU! Do you love Divergent? If so then this is the club for you where you can talk to other Divergent fans like your self and ...more

Team Will Herondale — 17 members — last activity Jul 28, 2017 05:49AM
Hmm...the title is pretty self explanatory but anayway: Okay, those of you who like Will and prefer him over Jem, join. Those of you who really don't ...more

∞ that book nerd ∞ — 64 members — last activity Jun 03, 2015 09:51AM
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

Prideathon — 121 members — last activity Apr 10, 2019 01:27PM
Prideathon is a biannual readathon where we focus on promoting intersectional LGBTQIAP+ literature, primarily young adult.

yes! i'm a bookworm — 91 members — last activity May 15, 2019 03:24AM
just a group for all the book nerds out there (just like me) a space to share our thoughts and opinions about our favorite books and simply enjot bein ...more

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