Piper

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Piper is Currently Reading

Piper is currently reading

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

bookshelves: currently-reading, 19th-century

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Feb 16, 2026 12:23PM

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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

by Alice Munro

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Jan 11, 2026 07:39PM

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Far from Land: The Mysterious Life of Seabirds

by Michael Brooke

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Piper’s Quotes

“If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“I love reading true crime, but I’ve always been aware of the fact that, as a reader, I am actively choosing to be a consumer of someone else’s tragedy. So like any responsible consumer, I try to be careful in the choices I make. I read only the best: writers who are dogged, insightful, and humane.”
― Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings

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“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.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

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