Elise

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Elise’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (209)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (208)
read-as-a-kid‎ (47)
2016‎ (42)
audiobooks‎ (41)
also-a-movie‎ (37)
comics-illustrated-books‎ (30)

ya-novels‎ (30)
2017‎ (23)
never-finished‎ (20)
non-fiction-memoir-autobiography‎ (20)
2015‎ (18)
shorts-and-collections‎ (16)
2014‎ (15)
favorites‎ (14)

2019‎ (13)
2024‎ (13)
2025‎ (13)
transgressive-fiction‎ (13)
2010-2013‎ (11)
erotica‎ (10)
classics‎ (9)
literary-fiction‎ (9)

2018‎ (7)
2020‎ (4)
2023‎ (4)
screenplays‎ (4)
2022‎ (1)

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Elise’s Notes & Highlights

Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley

8 highlights

Ever since, I’ve thought that must be why we cry: our bodies are coping with something our minds and hearts can’t absorb by themselves.

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

56 highlights
You (You, #1)

by Caroline Kepnes

67 highlights

See Elise’s 38 books with notes and highlights…

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

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“People never notice anything.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden, obliviousness

1242 likes

“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

3067 likes

“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1257 likes

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: happiness

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