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“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.” - Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #classicliterature

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 13h

“Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.” - Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 15h

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” - The Republic by Plato #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #philosophy #plato #ancientgreece

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 17h

“Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.” - The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #dickens #victorianliterature

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 19h

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune..." - The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #modernclassics #faulkner

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 21h

"He thinks she is a vase of darkness; if he tips her up, black light will spill out." - Black Venus by Angela Carter #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 23h

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.” - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.” - Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #virginiawoolf

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.” - So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.” - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #modernclassics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #modernclassics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“One reads alone, even in another's presence.” - If On a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #modernclassics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“I mostly feel restless. Like I’m waiting for real life to begin, and I’m just putting in time, watching everything fall apart until things make sense again.” - Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“How empty is theory in the presence of fact!” - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #classiclit #marktwain

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Mediocrities flock to any movement which will indulge their self-pity and their self-righteousness, for without a Movement the mediocrity is on the slide into terminal melancholia.” - The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“We know not whom God loves nor whom He hates.” - The Book of Marvels and Travels by John Mandeville #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #oxfordworldsclassics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.” - Dubliners by James Joyce #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #irishliterature #jamesjoyce

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The moon paled, the river sobbed, a mental breeze bowed down the trees." - Wake Up by Jack Kerouac #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #modernclassics #kerouac

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.” - Middlemarch by George Eliot #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #classicliterature

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“...humanity often prefers the familiar over the unknown...” - Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #modernclassics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“To sue to live, I find I seek to die; and, seeking death, find life.” - Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #shakespeare

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.” - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I was full of squeamishness, which whatever else it is is a way of clinging to life, I could still care about unessential things.” - Small Rain by Garth Greenwell #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.” - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” - The Iliad by Homer #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #classicalliterature #classical #ancientgreece

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” - The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #russianlit #russia #modernclassics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.” - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #modernclassics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.” - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #modernclassics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?” - Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.” - Light Years by James Salter #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.” - If We Were Villains by ML Rio #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“She was alive, and seeing her like that infused me with a loneliness and indescribable longing.” - Heaven by Mieko Kawakami #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #japaneseliterature

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Whenever she was unhappy she felt herself at bay against a pitiless world, and a kind of animal secretiveness possessed her.” - Summer by Edith Wharton #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #oxfordworldsclassics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.” - Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #shakespeare

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.” - One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"When people are happy they should not try to become any happier." - Irretrievable by Theodor Fontane #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #nyrbclassics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.” - Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I'm dead.” - Heartburn by Nora Ephron #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Broken hearts, unrequited love and inconsolable misery are subjects which, most fortunately, I have only ever read in books.” - Sanditon by Jane Austen #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics #janeausten #classicliterature

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.” - My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics

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