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"Didn't finish....thought it was weak, didn't grab my attention." — Oct 19, 2016 09:34AM
"Didn't finish....thought it was weak, didn't grab my attention." — Oct 19, 2016 09:34AM
“Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.”
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“Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.”
― Everything I Never Told You
― Everything I Never Told You
“I need to touch and hold the book, stroke the cover, and hear the voices inside so I will always be able to feel the magic.”
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“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
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“To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.”
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Barbara’s 2025 Year in Books
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