October 2011
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“Perhaps love cannot live anywhere but books.”
– William Faulkner
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Finished The God of Small Things
5 down, 95 left to go
“I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides
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“It won’t be the same. You can never go back to a moment when you were happy.”
– Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine
“Things change. And friends leave. But life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
– The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
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“I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t...”
– Ray Bradbury
“Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the...”
– Voltaire
“Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any...”
– Ezra Pound
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“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I’d never have.”
– Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
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“She could no longer borrow from the future, to help her through the present...”
– The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
– Truman Capote
