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“Don’t we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”
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“I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children. [...] I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.”
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“People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Rumana’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rumana’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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77 friends
13,437 books
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103 books
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1,332 books
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432 friends
181 books
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82 books
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188 books
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20 books
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