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Sometimes, in moments of great need, we can do wonderful things—things that in ordinary life we could hardly even dream of doing.
“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.”
― The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
― The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
“But spring in England is like a prolonged adolescence, stumbling, sweet and slow, a thing of infinitesimal shades, false starts, expectations, deferred hopes, and final showers of glory.”
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
“For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.”
― As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
― As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
“All destruction eventually leads to construction, all death eventually leads to birth, all pain eventually leads to pleasure. In this life or the next, what goes down will come up. It’s a matter of how we see the challenge in front of us and how we engage with it. Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time.”
― Greenlights
― Greenlights
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Clarissa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Clarissa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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305 books
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Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical fiction, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, and Travel
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