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Reading for the 3rd time
read in October 2019
abi said:
"
i would never be able to find the words to articulate how much this trilogy means to me, so i'm not going to try - except to say that these books have shaped me as a person, are the reason i love reading, and will continue to inspire me until the day
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progress:
(page 1014 of 1016)
"'she wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him; didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every moment they'd been together, didn't long for his voice and his hands and his love. she had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most.'" — Mar 30, 2025 08:29AM
"'she wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him; didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every moment they'd been together, didn't long for his voice and his hands and his love. she had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most.'" — Mar 30, 2025 08:29AM
abi
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by Ron Chernow
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(33%)
"the room where it happens time 💖 best song best song best song" — Mar 28, 2025 11:10AM
"the room where it happens time 💖 best song best song best song" — Mar 28, 2025 11:10AM
“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“Desire is not simple. In Greek the act of love is a mingling and desire melts the limbs. Boundaries of body, category of thought, are confounded.”
― Eros the Bittersweet
― Eros the Bittersweet
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“better not bring up a lion inside your city,
But if you must, then humour all his moods.”
― The Frogs
But if you must, then humour all his moods.”
― The Frogs
“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.”
― Eros the Bittersweet
― Eros the Bittersweet
Quill and Ink Roleplay Book Club
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— last activity Oct 28, 2022 08:01AM
A place for discussion of the monthly book chosen by Quill and Ink's Book Club! ...more
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