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Isabel is Currently Reading

Isabel Simões is currently reading

The Mercies

by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 02, 2026 05:18PM

Isabel’s Quotes

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: poetry

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“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry

3290 likes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: dream, loneliness

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