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"Idk how else to explain it but this feels like a winter book (slow, pensive, detailed, meandering) and I am in a summer mood (fast-paced, spontaneous, whimsical) so I’m struggling" — May 05, 2026 10:14AM
"Idk how else to explain it but this feels like a winter book (slow, pensive, detailed, meandering) and I am in a summer mood (fast-paced, spontaneous, whimsical) so I’m struggling" — May 05, 2026 10:14AM
“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
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“Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.”
― Rushing to Paradise
― Rushing to Paradise
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
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Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
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“I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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