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“Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“In an infinite universe, all things are possible -- within physical limits, that is -- and any book that can be written does physically exist. Somewhere. The book is the bridge between the words and the physical actuality.”
― The Book of Ti'ana
― The Book of Ti'ana
“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”
― The Bridges of Madison County
― The Bridges of Madison County
“... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”
― Prep
― Prep
“What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.”
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
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The "To Be Read" Reading Challenge. Every book-addict knows the problem. We have tons of unread books on our shelves, yet we never seem to get to re ...more
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Ellen’s 2025 Year in Books
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