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What’s really happening in these moments is that you find yourself looking at their eyes – that is, the gaze stops at the eye itself, arrested by the beauty of it; and their gaze does the same at yours; and the two gazes and your souls
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“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”
― The Truth About Forever
― The Truth About Forever
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
― Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― New Year Letter
― New Year Letter
Return of the Rogue Readers
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Welcome! This is a book club started out as a club local to the Ohio Valley area, but everyone is welcomed to join. We take turns picking a book and ...more
Our Shared Shelf
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
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Welcome to Historical Fictionistas! We want to experience all different kinds of HF with all different kinds of people. The more diverse, the better. ...more
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This group explores European literature in translation (i.e. it generally excludes works originally written in English, but we are bound to wander at ...more
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We offer love, compassion & kindness to create a better world. The moderator proposes books by & about people who have done this profoundly...Martin L ...more
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