Jacqueline

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Jacqueline’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (524)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (402)
fiction‎ (67)
young-adult‎ (63)
horror‎ (55)
fantasy‎ (53)
historical-fiction‎ (37)
science-fiction‎ (29)
thriller-suspense‎ (25)
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kiddie-lit‎ (23)

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southern-fiction‎ (20)
lgbt‎ (12)
comics-and-graphic-novels‎ (11)
apocalyptic‎ (10)
mystery‎ (10)
drama-and-theatre‎ (9)
dystopia‎ (9)
magical-realism‎ (9)
arcs‎ (8)
memoir‎ (8)

indigenous-literature‎ (7)
mythology‎ (7)
poetry‎ (7)
humor‎ (6)
murakami‎ (6)
hiatus‎ (5)
historical-nonfiction‎ (5)
nature-writing‎ (5)
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plath‎ (4)
romance‎ (4)

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Jacqueline’s Quotes

“Evening you gather back
all that dazzling dawn has put asunder:
you gather a lamb, gather a kid,
gather a child to its mother.”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

tags: child, evening, gather, kid, lamb

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“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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