Laura

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Laura’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (743)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (4170)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
completed‎ (3173)
oliver-s-stories‎ (2587)
beloved‎ (907)
own-it‎ (371)
graphic-novel‎ (295)

audio‎ (288)
non-fiction‎ (208)
2019‎ (179)
2021‎ (151)
2022‎ (126)
2020‎ (125)
2018‎ (102)
2011‎ (97)
2009‎ (88)

2015‎ (87)
2010‎ (79)
2017‎ (78)
pulitzers‎ (66)
2013‎ (65)
2012‎ (54)
2016‎ (52)
2023‎ (51)
book-club‎ (37)

2014‎ (36)
newberry-honor-award‎ (33)
read-multiple-times‎ (32)
man-booker‎ (23)
work-or-mlis‎ (17)
mcsweeneys‎ (6)
couldnt-finish‎ (5)

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Laura’s Quotes

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

tags: age-adult

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“I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

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“I wasn't thinking of Tom but of myself. And of a self who seemed to be mot 'me' but 'she.' An innocent, moving fecklessly through the days, knowing nothing, whom I saw now with awful wisdom. ... I had hesitated to make this journey, had put it off year after year but had known always that eventually it must be undertaken. And, confronted at last with the mirage -- with the shining phantom of that other time -- I was surprised to find that it was myself that was the poignant presence.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

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“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: changes

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“It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better. It’s just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the twilight, and suddenly the lamp comes in. I had been putting out my eyes over the book of life, and finding nothing to reward me for my pains; but now that I can read it properly I see that it’s a delightful story.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

tags: desire, love, satisfaction

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