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“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
― A Passage to India
― A Passage to India
“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“Each person has a literature inside them.”
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“If you’re going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
“..the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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Amelie’s 2025 Year in Books
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