Ayesha

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Ayesha is Currently Reading

Ayesha is currently reading

Birdsong

by Sebastian Faulks

bookshelves: currently-reading, adultery, can-only-happen-in-novels, femininity, love-and-lust

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Ayesha’s Quotes

“How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

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“When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

tags: painful-memories

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“I think I’m always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself.
- Celine”
― Richard Linklater, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays

tags: books, life, movies

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“This experience led me to form a hypothesis: perhaps the wisdom of birds resides, not in the individual, but in the flock, the congregation.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

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