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Melissa’s Quotes

“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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“You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money,
Love like you’ll never get hurt.
You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watchin’.”
― Richard Leigh, Come from the Heart Sheet Music

tags: susanna-clark

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“why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid.
Why try to make me like you?
Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle?
Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle?
Why do you scream when I do what I did?
Im a kid.”
― Shel Silverstein, Falling Up

tags: humor, poetry

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Melissa’s Groups

Book Junkies — 1860 members — last activity Sep 14, 2026 11:09AM
A group for anyone with eclectic tastes. Really, we have no specific genre we like to adhere to. Join if you like to read anything and everything.

Classics Without All the Class — 4416 members — last activity Aug 13, 2026 07:32AM
You don’t have to be an English or Literature Major to enjoy great books! We want people to read for the fun of it and not worry about feeling they ne ...more

Banned Books — 5242 members — last activity 16 minutes ago
To celebrate our love of reading books that people see fit to ban throughout the world. We abhor censorship and promote freedom of speech.

Reading the Classics — 4036 members — last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more

Reading is my escape — 1028 members — last activity Sep 11, 2018 04:51PM
my goal is to get a group of people together who view reading as a HUGE part of their life to chat about books, life, stresses, whatever! Facebook P ...more

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