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Plateresca’s Quotes

“Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

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“For he never read without taking extracts, and used to say that there never was a book so bad that it was not good in some passage or another.”
― Pliny the Younger, [Epistolae Plinii ad Trajanum imperatorem hujusque ad illum responsa]: inest Historia critica Epistolarum Plinii et Trajani usque ad a. 1552 scripsit J.O. Orellius. 1838 [Leather Bound]

tags: reading

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“May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

tags: beauty, house, path

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“discontented with the general proposal to go to bed”
― Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare

tags: the-story-of-my-life

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“It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: true

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Dickensians! — 615 members — last activity 1 hour, 4 min ago
Do you love the stories by Charles Dickens, and anything Victorian? Are you keen to chat about his books, his life, the times or places he lived in, o ...more

The Obscure Reading Group — 196 members — last activity Sep 20, 2024 04:19PM
July 2024 update: This group is going on hiatus due to low participation in recent discussions. Like a phoenix, however, it reserves the right to fly ...more

Works of Thomas Hardy — 284 members — last activity 1 hour, 36 min ago
A group to discuss all the works of Thomas Hardy, from poems to novels and everything in between. Also, this is a place to discuss the life and times ...more

The Gothic Novel Book Club <Hiatus> — 798 members — last activity Dec 20, 2021 06:15AM
Can't get enough of the supernatural? How about the dark and mysterious? If you answered yes to both of those questions, then this group is for you! E ...more

Literary Darkness — 4723 members — last activity Dec 22, 2025 03:04PM
This group is dedicated to an appreciation of important works of literature, both classic and contemporary... that happen to fall into the category of ...more

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