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Andy’s Quotes

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anxiety, love, saveing

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“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
― Annie Dillard

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“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

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“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know.”
― W.G. Sebald, The Emigrants

tags: death, knowing

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100+ Books in 2026 — 1804 members — last activity 2 hours, 26 min ago
Up for a serious challenge? Then come join us! Our goal is to read 100 or more books in one year. GO AHEAD AND START YOUR 2026 LIST!! Just star ...more

readers advisory for all — 5767 members — last activity Jul 14, 2026 02:35PM
life's too short to read crappy books. this is why readers' advisory exists. feel free to join if you are looking for "a book like____" or "a book tha ...more

Seattle Area Goodreaders — 367 members — last activity Oct 07, 2019 03:28PM
This group provides a forum to connect with other readers in the Seattle area. I will try to post any author or book-related events I know of in the a ...more