Chrissyreadsbooks

Bookish quotes and thoughts

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„You should stop reading and start talking to people“

- me going on the internet to talk to people … about books

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Book buying and reading are two separate hobbies

- me after impulse buying 5 more books while having 20 unread books at home

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In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun

- Madeline Miller “Song of Achilles”

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I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world

- Madeline Miller “Song of Achilles”

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We loved with a love that was more than love

- Edgar Allan Poe “Annabel Lee”

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I always ask myself “what would my favorite book character do” instead of asking friends for advise

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Have you ever re-read a beloved book and felt like you are visiting old friends

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Give me more books that make me cry after finishing them