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Carla Botha
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“I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.”
― Book of a Thousand Days
― Book of a Thousand Days
“How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!”
― Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
― Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
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with your one wild and precious life?”
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“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
Carla’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carla’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
70 books
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15 friends
1 book
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12 friends
1,113 books
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301 friends
479 books
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55 friends
378 books
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175 friends
36 books
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70 friends
25 books
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84 friends
0 books
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31 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Chick-lit, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Non-fiction, Poetry, Romance, Sports, Travel, and Young-adult
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