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“We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.”
― The Gathering
― The Gathering
“Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.”
― The Gathering
― The Gathering
“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.”
― Of Love and Other Demons
― Of Love and Other Demons
“He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rachel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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143 friends
174 books
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77 friends
1,205 books
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61 friends
770 books
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94 friends
411 books
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120 friends
501 books
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142 friends
121 books
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3,455 friends
151 books
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157 friends
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