Melanie

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Melanie is Currently Reading

Melanie is currently reading

A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy)

by Stacey McEwan (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 04, 2026 02:07PM

Melanie’s Quotes

“I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I'm dead.”
― Nora Ephron, Heartburn

tags: humor

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“I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person. ”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

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“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

tags: books, humour

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“I don’t need you to explain to me the concept of a magical land filled with fantastic creatures that only certain special children can enter. I am acquainted with the last several centuries of popular culture. There are books. And cartoons, for the illiterate.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

tags: fantasy, humorous

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