Abigail Allison

Abigail’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (814)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (497)
did-not-finish‎ (8)
college‎ (11)
fiction‎ (392)
non-fiction‎ (188)
mystery-thriller‎ (154)

romance‎ (149)
bio-memoir‎ (85)
social-studies‎ (81)
beach-reads‎ (51)
historical-fiction‎ (50)
classics‎ (49)
holiday‎ (37)
wanderlust‎ (33)

essays‎ (32)
short-stories‎ (32)
history‎ (31)
feminism‎ (25)
religion-philosophy‎ (25)
to-read-shortlist‎ (24)
true-crime‎ (21)
favorites‎ (16)

seasons‎ (16)
giveaways‎ (15)
in-translation‎ (12)
map-of-novels‎ (12)
ireland‎ (10)
self-help‎ (9)
to-read-longlist‎ (9)
book-club‎ (5)

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Abigail’s Quotes

“I have done that', says my memory. I cannot have done that—says my pride and remains unshakeable. Finally—memory yields.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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“It's amazing that the city we live in allows "pets" that belong in a sideshow, but makes it illegal for me to have a switchblade.”
― Helen Ellis

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“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: games

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“[Dessie's] shop was a unique institution in Salinas. It was a woman's world. Here all the rules, and the fears that created the iron rules, went down. The door was closed to men. It was a sanctuary where women could be themselves- smelly, wanton, mystic, conceited, truthful, and interested. The whalebone corsets came off at Dessie's, the sacred corsets that moulded and warped woman-flesh into goddess-flesh. At Dessie's they were women who went to the toilet and overate and scratched and farted. And from this freedom came laughter, roars of laughter.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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