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Molly Ferguson is currently reading

The Paying Guests

by Sarah Waters

bookshelves: brit-lit, currently-reading

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Jul 25, 2026 03:47PM

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The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2)

by Ann Cleeves (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 12, 2026 05:22PM

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

tags: meaning, self

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“I read; I travel; I become”
― Derek Walcott

tags: read, travel

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“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

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“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

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