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"She felt a depression of spirits, a quickened sense of loss as if ghosts could haunt with their absence as much as by their presence." — Jun 14, 2026 10:38PM
"She felt a depression of spirits, a quickened sense of loss as if ghosts could haunt with their absence as much as by their presence." — Jun 14, 2026 10:38PM
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"She [Mrs Lecount] twined herself in and out of every weakness in his character, as the frogs and efts twined themselves in and out of the rock-work of her Aquarium. But she made one serious mistake which very clever people in their intercourse with their intellectual inferiors are almost universally apt to commit – she trusted implicitly to the folly of a fool." — Jun 17, 2026 10:50AM
"She [Mrs Lecount] twined herself in and out of every weakness in his character, as the frogs and efts twined themselves in and out of the rock-work of her Aquarium. But she made one serious mistake which very clever people in their intercourse with their intellectual inferiors are almost universally apt to commit – she trusted implicitly to the folly of a fool." — Jun 17, 2026 10:50AM
“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
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“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
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Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
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“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“There are some books that LIVE," she mused. "They are young with us, and they grow old with us.”
― Night and Day
― Night and Day
“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
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Jola’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jola’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Fiction, Graphic novels, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Travel, and Diaries
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