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Carmen is currently reading

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

by Lisa See (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 19, 2026 06:12AM

Carmen’s Quotes

“Book-readers are just as willing as anyone else to start out with the weather, but as a general rule they can actually go on from there.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

tags: book-readers

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“The meeting would be safe as a wedding.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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“Often in those two months I said to myself, If I live, I will wipe this time from my mind; I cannot even bear the memory. Yet now I turn to it. He is gone; and all times when he was there seem like lost riches.”
― Mary Renault

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“It was funny how you could still know little things about people, like where they kept their tin, even though you didn't know what they were thinking from one week to the next.”
― Nick Hornby

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“A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

tags: falling-in-love, old-age, young

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