Ashley
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Pause, shadow of my elusive love, image of my most dear enchanter, Beautiful illusion for whom I die gladly Sweet fiction for whom I live sadly. —SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ
“Seneca’s line “Let the wickedness escape . . . for every guilty person is his own hangman.”
― Freud's Mistress
― Freud's Mistress
“Fine, blood was thicker than water. But friendship, it struck Tibby, was thicker than both.”
― The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
― The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
“She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.”
― Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
― Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
“Through all her years of knowing him, this is what she learned that night. He was an unhappy man. And unhappy men are dangerous.”
― Freud's Mistress
― Freud's Mistress
“But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.”
― Breakfast at Tiffany's
― Breakfast at Tiffany's
Northern Virginia Book Club
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The NoVA book club is for Northern Virginians who love reading and discussing great literature! We discuss our monthly book over 7pm dinner on the fir ...more
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