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jessa is Currently Reading

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Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1)

by Callie Hart (Goodreads Author)

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They Were Counted

by Miklós Bánffy

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Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment: Raced, Sexed, and Erased

by Carol Siegel

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jessa’s Quotes

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
― André Aciman

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“Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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“..time is always the price we pay for the unlived life.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

tags: life, price, time, unlived

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“I can't hold enough of you in my hands.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

tags: franzkafka, romantic-quotes

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“I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

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