Marie Theron

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Marie is Currently Reading

Marie Theron is currently reading

Thérèse Raquin

by Émile Zola

bookshelves: crime-and-suspense, currently-reading

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Victorian Ghost Stories

by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

bookshelves: british-history, disfunctional-families, family-drama, ghost, gothic-horror, magic-realism, rural-britain, smalltown-culture, currently-reading

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May 01, 2026 09:44PM

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35 Stories by Shirley Jackson. A Fully Illustrated Anthology: About Two Nice People, All She Said Was Yes, The Daemon Lover, A Great Voice Stilled, The Missing Girl and Others

by Shirley Jackson

bookshelves: american-history-and-culture, disfunctional-families, ghost, gothic-horror, currently-reading

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May 01, 2026 09:34PM

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Marie’s Quotes

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

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“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“Heaven and man do not easily come together, but a wolf and the grassland merge like water and milk.”
― Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem

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“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: books, infinite-jest

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