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“it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.”
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“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
“He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
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“You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
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Joanna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joanna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Classics, Fiction, History, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, Spirituality, and Travel
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