108 books
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by (shelved 95 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,810,627 ratings — published 1925

by (shelved 81 times as prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,331,571 ratings — published 1949

by (shelved 79 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,352,980 ratings — published 1942

by (shelved 79 times as prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,441,817 ratings — published 1945

by (shelved 77 times as prose)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,842,452 ratings — published 1951

by (shelved 72 times as prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,772,310 ratings — published 1960

by (shelved 69 times as prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 931,492 ratings — published 1955

by (shelved 68 times as prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,826,725 ratings — published 1890

by (shelved 67 times as prose)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,049,592 ratings — published 1866

by (shelved 64 times as prose)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,809,065 ratings — published 1818

by (shelved 64 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,377,634 ratings — published 1915

by (shelved 61 times as prose)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,700,721 ratings — published 1996

by (shelved 61 times as prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,770,269 ratings — published 1953

by (shelved 59 times as prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,086,310 ratings — published 1967

by (shelved 58 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,395,688 ratings — published 1937

by (shelved 55 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,044,682 ratings — published 1932

by (shelved 54 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,465,987 ratings — published 1969

by (shelved 54 times as prose)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,212,819 ratings — published 1997

by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,711,156 ratings — published 1813

by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,185,743 ratings — published 1963

by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,787,416 ratings — published 1937

by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,993,223 ratings — published 1847

by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,153,347 ratings — published 1954

by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,286,580 ratings — published 1952

by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,368,113 ratings — published 1985

by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.43 — 551,710 ratings — published 1899

by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 879,736 ratings — published 1961

by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,411,328 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 46 times as prose)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,419,233 ratings — published 1943

by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 3.94 — 385,138 ratings — published 1925

by (shelved 43 times as prose)
avg rating 3.77 — 139,584 ratings — published 1922

by (shelved 43 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,749,058 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 43 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,017,581 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 41 times as prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,990,675 ratings — published 1979

by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,920,331 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,287,888 ratings — published 1847

by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 828,286 ratings — published 1974

by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 760,855 ratings — published 1962

by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,124,428 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,605,615 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 3.83 — 172,685 ratings — published 1914

by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,729,247 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,054,604 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 211,010 ratings — published 1927

by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 917,979 ratings — published 1878

by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 388,934 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 534,068 ratings — published 1984

by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 860,450 ratings — published 1922

by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,737,844 ratings — published 2003

“It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again.
Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.”
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Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.”
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“And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I said to myself. Run until your lungs collapse, until the wind whips and snaps at your tattered clothes, until you're a blur that blends into the background.
Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run.
Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette.
Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you.
Run, I said.”
― Unravel Me
Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run.
Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette.
Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you.
Run, I said.”
― Unravel Me