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"Llevo el 50 porque es muy largo y no lo leo cada día, pero quiero que sepáis que estoy viviéndolo" — Dec 10, 2023 05:20AM
"Llevo el 50 porque es muy largo y no lo leo cada día, pero quiero que sepáis que estoy viviéndolo" — Dec 10, 2023 05:20AM
“She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
Irene’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Irene’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry, Romance, Science fiction, Young-adult, and novels
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