Evangeline

Evangeline’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (828)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (551)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
fiction‎ (416)
around-the-world‎ (192)
contemporary‎ (158)
non-fiction‎ (137)
classics‎ (89)
mystery-thriller‎ (75)
travel‎ (72)
mental-health-illness‎ (67)

2011‎ (64)
womens-lit‎ (64)
biography-memoirs‎ (62)
historical-fiction‎ (54)
2012‎ (46)
humour‎ (44)
2013‎ (41)
ya-childrens‎ (39)
2016‎ (35)
to-be-re-read‎ (35)
animals‎ (34)
2017‎ (32)

near-favourites‎ (31)
2014‎ (30)
2015‎ (30)
2018‎ (27)
favourites‎ (27)
2020‎ (26)
fantasy-sci-fi‎ (25)
book-club‎ (24)
2025‎ (23)
2021‎ (21)
2022‎ (19)
epistolary‎ (19)

2024‎ (17)
2026‎ (17)
abandoned‎ (17)
2019‎ (16)
short-stories‎ (16)
tv-book-club‎ (14)
jane-austen-spin-offs‎ (13)
2023‎ (12)
read-in-school‎ (10)
shakespeare‎ (10)
autism‎ (7)

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Evangeline’s Quotes

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

tags: happiness, life, suffering

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“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: children, humor, paraphrased, parents

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“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

tags: discomfort, force-of-nature, marriage, matrimony, nature, pleasure, self-deception

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