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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
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“The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.”
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Jess’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jess’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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56 friends
991 books
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Cooking, Crime, Ebooks, Erotica, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Psychology, Romance, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, and Young-adult
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