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“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
― Perestroika
― Perestroika
“If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.”
― Black Swan Green
― Black Swan Green
“But these were days of self-fulfillment, where settling for something that was not quite your first choice of a life seemed weak-willed and ignoble. Somewhere, surrendering to what seemed to be your fate had changed from being dignified to being a sign of your own cowardice. There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.”
― Fire from Heaven
― Fire from Heaven
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
Operation Book Club
— 42 members
— last activity Oct 06, 2017 01:55PM
Hello everyone! This is the Goodreads page for operationbookclub.tumblr.com, the book club started by tumblr users vermontparnasse, courfeyracs and fl ...more
Top 5 Wednesday
— 9802 members
— last activity Dec 09, 2025 10:01AM
Welcome to the official group page of the T5W! This weekly book meme officiated in November 2013 and is still going strong! Join the group to become a ...more
operation war and peace
— 20 members
— last activity Oct 02, 2017 02:30PM
we're reading war and peace. STARTING SEPTEMBER 1, 2017. ...more
100BestWIT
— 76 members
— last activity Sep 02, 2020 03:16PM
With the release of the 100 Best WIT list we thought it might be fun to dedicate a Goodreads group to the list...maybe even read the list in its entir ...more
The Capslock Book Club
— 8 members
— last activity Jun 25, 2012 08:57AM
Where our discussions frequently occur in unadulterated capslock bliss. We just have a lot of feelings, okay?
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