false 32 141 70 true 5787643 read 3 true 583646 currently-reading 68 true 583645 to-read 1 false 4190174 on-hold http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79231535 Toussaint Louverture: A Biography (Hardcover) by Madison Smartt Bell
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79201399 Let the Great World Spin: A Novel (Hardcover) by Colum McCann
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69449693 Fall on Your Knees (Mass Market Paperback) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79076231 King Leopold's Soliloquy (Paperback) by Mark Twain
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27207707 to: The English Patient (Hardcover) by Michael Ondaatje
"I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant, who imagines or remembers a meeting when the other had passed by innocently, just as Clifton might have opened a car door for you a year earlier and ignored the fate of his life. But all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.
I have lived in the desert for years and I have come to believe in such things. It is a place of pockets. The trompe l'oeil of time and water. The jackal with one eye that looks back and one that regards the path you consider taking. In his jaws are pieces of the past he delivers to you, and when all of that time is fully discovered it will prove to have been already known."

"Half my days I cannot bear not to touch you. The rest of the time I feel it doesn't matter if I ever see you again. It isn't the morality, it is how much you can bear."

"Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute and secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book. He has been disassembled by her."

"She did not believe she could turn fully to him and be his lover. He moved at a speed that allowed him to replace loss. That was his nature. She would not judge it in him. What right did she have." ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79076435 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Paperback) by Adam Hochschild
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79076221 Heart of Darkness (Green Integer) by Joseph Conrad
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79066481 Say You're One of Them (Hardcover) by Uwem Akpan
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