Jill S

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Jill’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (288)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1099)
fiction‎ (366)
non-fiction‎ (202)
canadian‎ (140)
bipoc-authors‎ (113)
biography-memoir‎ (107)

audiobook‎ (76)
lgbtq‎ (71)
young-adult‎ (60)
favourites‎ (52)
in-translation‎ (49)
bookclub‎ (46)
mystery-thriller‎ (38)
short-stories‎ (34)

essays‎ (32)
cbc-100-books‎ (28)
booker‎ (25)
sff‎ (24)
giller‎ (22)
poetry‎ (21)
womens-prize‎ (17)
graphic-novels‎ (13)

indigenous‎ (13)
classics‎ (12)
plays‎ (9)
tbrspin‎ (7)
baillie-gifford‎ (5)
romance‎ (4)

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Jill’s Quotes

“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

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“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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