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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Diary
― Diary
“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
PPLD: Books & Brews
— 9 members
— last activity Oct 30, 2017 12:38PM
A library book club that meets in a bar! We meet once a month in a local watering hole in Poughkeepsie to chat about books over food and drinks.
British Studies Book Club
— 6 members
— last activity Aug 17, 2016 08:48PM
This is what happens when librarians spend a month together exploring Britain. This is what happens when worlds collide, and remain connected. This is ...more
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