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Stephanie is Currently Reading

Stephanie is currently reading

There Are Rivers in the Sky

by Elif Shafak (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2025, currently-reading

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Nov 24, 2025 04:37PM

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The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: possible-favorites, books-ive-read-more-than-once, autumn-reads, must-re-read, literary-comfort-food, currently-reading

Reading for the 3rd time

read in October 2016

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— Oct 06, 2011 09:33PM

Nov 03, 2016 02:42PM

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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

by Natalie Dykstra

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Jun 08, 2025 07:37PM

Stephanie’s Notes & Highlights

Just Kids by Patti Smith

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I raided libraries and church bazaars for art books. It was possible then to find beautiful volumes for next to nothing and I happily dwelt in the world of Modigliani, Dubuffet, Picasso, Fra Angelico, and Albert Ryder.

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Stephanie’s Quotes

“She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, love, reading

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“The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

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