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Erica’s Quotes

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

tags: memories, past

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“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love

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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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Erica’s Groups

Audiobooks — 16603 members — last activity 4 hours, 44 min ago
Audio & audiobooks are getting more and more popular for commuters & those wanting to squeeze in another book or two a month while doing other activit ...more

English Translations of Scandinavian/Nordic Mysteries & Thrillers — 2101 members — last activity 39 minutes ago
A place to discuss Scandi Crime novels, which includes novels from: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark. Whether it's Smilia from Peter Hoeg's S ...more

21st Century Literature — 3658 members — last activity 5 hours, 15 min ago
We read literary fiction from 2000 to present, with the intent of finding those literary gems of timeless and enduring quality. We're less focused o ...more

The Read Around The World Book Club — 452 members — last activity Oct 10, 2021 05:22PM
I have created this book club to read books from all over the world, but only from female authors. We will pick a book from a country a month a head ...more

ManBookering — 1780 members — last activity May 17, 2023 10:29AM
Join us as we read the backlist of Man Booker Prize winners and the nominees each year for the MBP!

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