“Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
Pe’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Poetry, Romance, and Young-adult
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