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“But let me see if - using these words as a little plot of land and my life as a cornerstone - I can build you a centre.”
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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“Thea, if love were a thing, it would be the sinew of a hand stretched in anticipation of grasping. See, my hands, they reach for you. My heart is a hand reaching.”
― Devotion
― Devotion
“It struck her that everything under that white sky was made of the same substance - not quite animal, but not merely earth: where branches had sheared from their trunks they left bright wounds, and she would not have been surprised to see severed stumps of oak and elm pulse as she passed. Laughing, she imagined herself part of it, and leaning against a trunk in earshot of a chattering thrush held up her arm, and wondered if she might see vivid green lichen stippling the skin between her fingers.”
― The Essex Serpent
― The Essex Serpent
Isabelle’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Isabelle’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
303 books
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37 friends
415 books
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2 friends
536 books
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45 friends
538 books
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43 friends
682 books
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53 friends
1,629 books
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273 friends
2,486 books
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25 friends
131 books
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8 friends
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