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“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
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“You are a transitional generation, said Aunt Lydia. It is the hardest for you. We know the sacrifices you are being expected to make. It is hard when men revile you. For the ones who come after you, it will be easier. They will accept their duties with willing hearts.
She did not say: Because they will have no memories, of any other way.
She said: Because they won't want things they can't have.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
She did not say: Because they will have no memories, of any other way.
She said: Because they won't want things they can't have.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“I try to remember if the past was exactly like this. I'm not sure, now. I know it contained these things, but somehow the mix is different. A movie about the past is not the same as the past”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest."
His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me.
Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”
― Dragonfly in Amber
His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me.
Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”
― Dragonfly in Amber
Chiara’s 2025 Year in Books
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114 books
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4,141 friends
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937 friends
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126 books
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491 friends
1,680 books
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647 books
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38 friends
508 books
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1,231 friends
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