“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”
― Divergent
― Divergent
“To carry them within us - that is our task. We carry them all inside us, all our dead and shattered loves. Only they make us whole. If we begin to forget or cast aside those we've lost, then...then we are no longer present either.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“Reading—an endless journey; a long, indeed never-ending journey that made one more temperate as well as more loving and kind.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so. It is hardly too much to say that we all of us occasionally speak of our dearest friends in a manner in which those dearest friends would very little like to hear themselves mentioned, and that we nevertheless expect that our dearest friends shall invariably speak of us as though they were blind to all our faults, but keenly alive to every shade of our virtues.”
― Barchester Towers
― Barchester Towers
Ximena’s 2025 Year in Books
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