Elena

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Elena is Currently Reading

Elena is currently reading

Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

by Elizabeth Strout (Goodreads Author)

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"They had fun together these days, they really did. It was as if marriage had been a long, complicated meal, and now there was this lovely dessert." — 7 hours, 52 min ago

Jul 15, 2026 09:07AM

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Prodigal Summer

by Barbara Kingsolver

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Jul 12, 2026 11:26PM

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The Monocle Book of Gentle Living

by Monocle (Goodreads Author)

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(page 124 of 288)
— Jul 20, 2024 11:13PM

Jun 03, 2024 08:49AM

Elena’s Quotes

“Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it”
― Gabriel García Márquez

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46679 likes

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

tags: greatness

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“People always clap for the wrong reasons.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair

tags: foibles, ideals

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