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“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”
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"Morgan le Fay rippled along as musically as ever. Marvellous woman. And what a glance she had: when it fell in reproof upon those servants, they shrank and quailed as timid people do when the lightning flashes out of a cloud." It should be no surpris...more |
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"All children, except one, grow up." I wish I read Peter Pan at a younger age because it's so full of the magic and wonder and escapism that a child craves and dreams of. The make-believe of it all, the adventures and the characters are so exceptional...more |
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“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!” So many people despise Heathcliffe in this nov...more |
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“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss
― Dr. Seuss
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