“Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.” - Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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“You'll figure it out! You get on your plane and I'll get on mine. And we'll see which one crashes!” - Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

“Why does every serious discussion or major emotional moment with my mother have to happen in a car?” - Best Woman by Rose Dommu #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #lgbt

What made the orchard miraculous, though, was an abandoned railway carriage in the far corner...its wheels gone, anchored by long grass and nettles, with brambles barring its door." - The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Book Review: "Babycakes" by Armistead Maupin

5/5 - Armistead Maupin is a fantastic author...

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"The inability to categorise or determine her motives is not a sign of her abnormality—it's a sign of her normality." - The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Sarah Churchwell #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #filmsky #films #marilynmonroe

“Nothing very expensive, as you can see, though when you’re poor anything that isn’t free is expensive.” - Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolaño #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.” - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookworm #bookish #bookpics

“I need to manage the unmanageable, to contain, correct and formalise the world, because I need to survive it.” - Blueberries by Ellena Savage #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #essays

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Book Review: "The Dark" by James Herbert

3/5 - enjoyable but not my favourite by the author...

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“What we think is impossible happens all the time.” - Come Closer by Sara Gran #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #horror #horrorlit

“But it’s a tiresome preoccupation, self-esteem. Something has to be done to limit the number of people whose opinions can affect us.” - More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

"There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude to life..." -Selected Essays by George Orwell #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookworm #bookish #bookpics #orwell

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Book Review: "The Seventh Sister" by Dawn Kurtagich

5/5 - folkish, nightmarish, brilliantly written...

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"His fidelity as a writer was not to the truth but to his own contradictions..." - Burning Man by Frances Wilson #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #dhlawrence

“One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.” - Augustus by John Williams #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

“A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.” - Ravelstein by Saul Bellow #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

“You could really feel physically wounded if someone hurt your feelings badly enough.” - Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

“And every morning, I realised anew that the world was filled with lonely people.” - Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

"Storytelling was Shakespeare's method of making sense of the world, and no stories gripped him more fully than those of classical antiquity." - The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #shakespeare

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Book Review: "Courtiers" by Lucy Worsley

5/5 - ...another hit by Lucy Worsley...

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“Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.” - The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #ishiguro #nobelprizewinner

“Don’t we all hope for some form of immortality? We might not be able to breathe forever but there are other ways to stay alive.” - A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

“...what is kindness but the performance of an act that is both beneficial to another and unrequired?” - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics