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He always said that books were more than words on paper; they were portals to other places, other lives. I fell in love with books and the vast worlds they held inside, and I owed it all to my father. ‘If you tilt your head,’ he told me
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“Sometimes you have to be a high riding bitch to survive, sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to.”
― Dolores Claiborne
― Dolores Claiborne
“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”
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“I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music and I'll bolt the door.”
― A Boy in France
― A Boy in France
“He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.”
― Beloved
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.”
― Beloved
“Somewhere in a corner of our hearts, we are always twenty,” I said. How”
― Lilac Girls
― Lilac Girls
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Persephone Books specializes in rediscovering 20th century novels, neglected women writers, twentieth century women writers and out of print books. Th ...more
Whitney’s 2025 Year in Books
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