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Maria Ella
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by Joi Barrios
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"First read of 2026 and I am grateful for letting me get out of a "slump" I've experiencing after reading Kairos." — 2 hours, 57 min ago
"First read of 2026 and I am grateful for letting me get out of a "slump" I've experiencing after reading Kairos." — 2 hours, 57 min ago
Maria Ella
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by Alan Navarra
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Maria Ella
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"Power through the Davao arc and the bullshit of Dutertenismo" — Sep 11, 2025 09:30AM
"Power through the Davao arc and the bullshit of Dutertenismo" — Sep 11, 2025 09:30AM
“There is exquisite lightness in waking each morning with the knowledge that the worst has already happened.”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel
“she believed in understanding upon meeting someone for the first time that they were going to be important in her life, a sensation like recognizing a familiar face in an old photograph: in a sea of faces that mean nothing, one comes into focus. You.”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel
“She was unsettling. But sometimes there was something perfect about it.”
― Last Night in Montreal
― Last Night in Montreal
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Normal People
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Normal People
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Goodreads - The Filipino Group (GR-TFG) We are Filipinos who love to read anything we get our hands on and who love to meet and discuss these things ...more
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...."whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. ...more
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A place for literary fiction readers and writers to engage in an open dialogue concerning the state of literature today, book recommendations, discuss ...more
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