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“He fit so perfectly in the love story I'd imagined for myself that I mistook him for the love of my life.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“Take my advice, don't appreciate any man too highly. In the book of every man's life there is a page which he would wish to keep turned down.”
― The Beetle
― The Beetle
“Yes, forgetting can be a curse, especially as we age. But forgetting is also one of the more important things healthy brains do, almost as important as remembering. Think how quickly the sheer volume and multiplicity of sensory information we receive every waking minute would overwhelm our consciousness if we couldn’t quickly forget a great deal more of it than we remember.”
― The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
― The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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All welcome! A bookclub for those of us who spend too much time on dark academia aesthetic, but also, enjoy reading and knowledge.
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