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Septembers of Shiraz - Dalia Sofer
Habibeh: "No, khanoum. I don't think what we have is friendship. I believe it's tolerance, and habit. Like animals in a forest, we have learned to live with one another ( Read more... ) -
Trains and Lovers: A Novel - Alexander McCall Smith
But for each person who is made happy by love, there will be many for whom it turns out to be a cause of regret. That is because it can be so fleeting; one moment it may take our breath away, the next it may leave us bereft. When it does that, love can be like a haunting, staying with us for year after year; we know tha it is gone, but somehow we ( Read more... ) -
Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties - Lucy Moore
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself. - Oscar Wilde ( Read more... ) -
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Livejounal doesn't provide a longer history anymore, does it? I can only click back to the past 30 posts on my friends' page and it's not enough. Can't even read what I missed earlier in the month. Bahhhhh.... -
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It's been a while since I properly updated. Anyways, the news is, I deactivated my Facebook account a week ago. I survived my first week without Facebook!!! :D Granted, I do have to use it for work and I still snoop around here and there, at least I don't get distractions all the time. There are a few reasons why I get myself off Facebook, mainly I ( Read more... ) -
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Mama, I have always miss you. When things go wrong in life, I miss you more. -
Bunheads - Sophie Flack
"The only way to really succeed is to give yourself completely to it. It's kind of like the Olympics, but it's every day of our lives."
"That singularity of purpose." He thinks for a moment. "You're like Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick, but without the whole psychotic, evil thing ( Read more... ) -
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. - G.K. Chesterton
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"Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave ( Read more... ) -
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
“So winners," Hae-Joo proposed, "are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?”
I said, “If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.”
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Time cannot permeate this sabbatical. We do not stay dead long. Once my Luger lets me go, my birth, next time ( Read more... ) -
The Swan Thieves - Elizabeth Kostova
"So, what made you come here ( Read more... )