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“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
― In Search of Lost Time
― In Search of Lost Time
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
“Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.”
― North and South
― North and South
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.
At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”
― A Grief Observed
At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”
― A Grief Observed
Ella’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ella’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,549 books
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40 friends
886 books
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17 friends
2,533 books
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53 friends
328 books
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28 friends
324 books
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4,898 friends
314 books
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24 friends
246 books
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52 friends
171 books
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22 friends
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