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Cara is Currently Reading

Cara is currently reading

Secrets of the Purple Pearl (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science #2)

by Kate McKinnon

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If It Bleeds (Holly Gibney #2) by Stephen King

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I believe you hear a click, not in your head but in your soul, when you find the place where you belong. You can ignore it, but really, why would you?

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Cara ’s Quotes

“Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage, and sternness.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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“But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

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“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: dream, loneliness, subjective-experience

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“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: books

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“Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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