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Erica
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“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
― Night Train to Lisbon
“What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?”
― Night Train to Lisbon
― Night Train to Lisbon
“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?”
― On Love
― On Love
Erica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Erica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
393 books
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61 friends
1,094 books
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176 friends
2,583 books
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4,352 friends
2,308 books
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228 friends
893 books
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63 friends
1,317 books
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124 friends
521 books
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2,023 friends
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