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“But in the closeness of the sewing room, Simon can smell her as well as look at her. He tries to pay no attention but her scent is a distracting undercurrent. She smells like smoke; smoke, and laundry soap, and the salt from her skin; and she smells of the skin itself, with its undertone of dampness, fullness, ripeness - what? Ferns and mushrooms; fruits crushed and fermenting.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“This puts him in an instructive mood, and I can see he is going to teach me something, which gentlemen are fond of doing.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
Camilla’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Camilla’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,552 books
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24 friends
527 books
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31 friends
735 books
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28 friends
1,256 books
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182 friends
523 books
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8 friends
3 books
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4 friends
5 books
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5 friends
41 books
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7 friends
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