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Candi is Currently Reading

Candi is currently reading

The Memory of Old Jack: A Novel (Port William)

by Wendell Berry

bookshelves: contemporary-literary, american-south, book-i-own, currently-reading

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The Peregrine

by J.A. Baker

bookshelves: animals, classics-shelf, non-fiction, currently-reading

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Candi’s Quotes

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

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“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

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“I have always loved a window, especially an open one.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

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“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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“I didn’t know quite what fornicating was, but I had read about it in Deuteronomy, and I knew it was a sin. But why was it so noisy? Most sins you did quietly so as not to get caught.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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