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Clare’s favorite books

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Three Elegies for Kosovo by Ismail Kadare

The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Marianna Mayer

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Clare is Currently Reading

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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

by Sylvia Plath

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Clare’s Quotes

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

tags: intelligence, mind, poverty

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“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

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“When I was fourteen I had the world at my feet but somebody didn't do their job properly and allowed me to sin.”
― Penelope Mortimer, The Pumpkin Eater

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“The silence was terrible then, as tense as a bridge about to break, a tower to fall; unedurable in its emotion, its truth bursting to be spoken.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

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“He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child

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