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Gila
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“It’s different. You can meet a Mexican or Asian who’ll speak English and know all of our pop culture, but still have their hands in their roots. Us, we’ve been here for centuries, and little by little our touch with Africa has been lost.
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“All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
― The Last Battle
― The Last Battle
“Her eyes fill up with tears again and she closes them. Even in memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she's aware of this now, while it's happening. She has never believed herself fit to be loved by any person. But now she has a new life, of which this is the first moment, and even after many years have passed she will still think: Yes, that was it, the beginning of my life.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her.”
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“He’s twelve years old, and this summer he learns that people will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe.”
― Us Against You
― Us Against You
“Leni had never known anyone who had died before. She had seen death on television and read about it in her beloved books, but now she saw the truth of it. In literature, death was many things - a message, catharsis, retribution. There were deaths that came from a beating heart that stopped and deaths of another kind, a choice made, like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. Death made you cry, filled you with sadness, but in the best of her books, there was peace, too, satisfaction, a sense of the story ending as it should.
In real life, she saw, it wasn't like that. It was sadness opening up inside of you, changing how you saw the world.”
― The Great Alone
In real life, she saw, it wasn't like that. It was sadness opening up inside of you, changing how you saw the world.”
― The Great Alone
FSW Book Club
— 7 members
— last activity Mar 26, 2022 09:31AM
A place for members of the FSW Book Club to connect and share recommendations.
Have You Read This?
— 4 members
— last activity Dec 29, 2019 07:26PM
This is a group discussion area for fans of HYRT Podcast to discuss the current reads of the pod!
Writerly Reads
— 102 members
— last activity Apr 22, 2018 09:14AM
A book club for authors, aspiring authors, editors, and aspiring editors. This book club is all about helping one another hone our craft as storytelle ...more
Writers Unite!
— 206 members
— last activity Apr 04, 2026 12:01PM
Are you writing a novel? Poetry collection? Blog? Short stories? Script for a play? Here is a club for you to join to get feedback, bounce ideas off e ...more
⋆.ೃ࿔࿐ྂfaith & fantasy⋆.ೃ࿔࿐ྂ
— 2666 members
— last activity 4 hours, 45 min ago
“We read to know that we are not alone.” ―C.S. Lewis This is a group for fantasy lovers who are also followers of Jesus! ⋆.ೃ࿔࿐ྂ April MOTM: Sophie ...more
Gila’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gila’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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