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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

tags: poetry, power-of-words

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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen

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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

tags: death, love

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“It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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The Actually Pretty Doable Summer Reading Challenge — 21 members — last activity Jun 12, 2015 07:21AM
The Actually Pretty Doable Summer Reading Challenge is just tough enough to be interesting without being boring. Basically, we'll each agree to read 1 ...more

The John Green Good Reads Community Book Club — 411 members — last activity Jan 25, 2018 09:45PM
There are many readers who like John Green-type of books in the world who would like to talk about anything, be it books or social. This is for the Wo ...more

Banned Books — 5202 members — last activity May 23, 2026 04:15PM
To celebrate our love of reading books that people see fit to ban throughout the world. We abhor censorship and promote freedom of speech.

GREAT WE'RE ALL BLOODY INSPIRED — 439 members — last activity May 18, 2026 12:23PM
Welcome to the glade... We love The Maze Runner and everything about it. That's basically the one thing you need to know. We discuss characters, story ...more