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“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.”
― Reaper Man
― Reaper Man
“...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly...”
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“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age — the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night — are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
Marisa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Marisa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
310 books
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46 friends
306 books
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24 friends
513 books
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101 friends
2 books
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9 friends
192 books
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3 friends
1,157 books
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46 friends
562 books
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26 friends
3,096 books
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186 friends
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