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“For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents."
"What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo.
"Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
"What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo.
"Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created. If you don't write at all you won't know how "great" that simple book can be.”
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“Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off...”
― Those Who Save Us
― Those Who Save Us
“Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.”
― The History of the Siege of Lisbon
― The History of the Siege of Lisbon
“W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.”
― The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
― The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Corinne’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Corinne’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
737 books
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111 friends
1,268 books
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73 friends
342 books
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176 friends
1,241 books
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495 books
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53 friends
635 books
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61 friends
154 books
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65 books
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