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“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labour, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.”
― My Bondage and My Freedom
― My Bondage and My Freedom
“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
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“I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like. Snow thought the Hunger Games were an efficient means of control. Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war. But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen.”
― Mockingjay
― Mockingjay
Jay’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Jay’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
136 books
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55 friends
230 books
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31 friends
82 books
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34 friends
42 books
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40 friends
66 books
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11 friends
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