Jessica

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Jessica’s Bookshelves

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read‎ (1026)
maybe‎ (228)
dnf‎ (8)
graphic-novel‎ (158)
favorites‎ (73)
memoir‎ (71)
picture-books‎ (64)
ya-fic‎ (64)

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book-club‎ (37)
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feminism‎ (30)
france‎ (30)
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poetry‎ (19)

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“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

tags: alone, books, friends, solitude

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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

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“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

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“Frequently, walking down the streets in Paris alone, I've suddenly come upon myself in a store window grinning foolishly away at the thought that no one in the world knew where I was at just that moment.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

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