Laura Bakker

https://www.instagram.com/laurasboeken/

https://www.goodreads.com/lauraxbakker

Laura’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (543)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (964)
did-not-finish‎ (1)
paused‎ (2)
books-i-own‎ (896)
europe‎ (501)
netherlands‎ (280)
library‎ (230)
physical-tbr‎ (186)
north-america‎ (177)
read-in-2024‎ (155)

read-in-2025‎ (149)
ya‎ (105)
sent-for-review‎ (96)
audiobooks‎ (90)
read-in-2017‎ (89)
fantasy‎ (82)
asia‎ (77)
ebooks‎ (70)
read-in-2014‎ (69)
read-in-2016‎ (69)
childhood‎ (67)
read-in-2019‎ (65)

read-in-2020‎ (63)
read-in-2018‎ (61)
read-in-2026‎ (61)
classics‎ (59)
read-in-2023‎ (58)
unshelved‎ (52)
favorites‎ (46)
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bookclub-picks‎ (38)
feminist-literature‎ (35)
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mythology‎ (19)
gesigneerd‎ (17)
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Laura’s Quotes

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry

11836 likes

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

tags: katharine-hepburn

4407 likes

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

7419 likes

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed

34850 likes

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: characters, dreams, touchstones

2396 likes

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