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“The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land — all things born of the soul that can only be felt.”
― Barnacle Love
― Barnacle Love
“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
― To Kiss a King
― To Kiss a King
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
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“And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass. ”
― A Month in the Country
― A Month in the Country
Madelene’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Madelene’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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65 friends
352 books
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196 books
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124 friends
268 books
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475 books
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203 friends
266 books
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53 friends
1,234 books
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185 friends
153 books
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169 friends
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