“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Between the Acts
― Between the Acts
“Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions
“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Emma
― Emma
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Ashley’s 2025 Year in Books
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