And even if I don’t yet understand every aspect of their personalities, at least I know the fabric of who they are. I like them as players and as people.
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― The Twits
― The Twits
“Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
Madeleine’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Madeleine’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Sports, and Thriller
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