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Middlemarch is the one that changed how I read. I used to skip anything that wasn't dialogue, and then Eliot's narrator stops the plot cold to explain a whole town's finances, and by book three I was reading those parts twice.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wuthering Heights isn't a romance. Bookshops keep putting it on the Valentine's table every February, and I want to ask if they made it past the first chapter.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Manet did these lithographs for Mallarmé's French translation of The Raven, which feels like an odd pairing until you see how dark he kept the lines. I've never run across the 1875 edition in a shop, only reproductions.

Edouard Manet - Illustration for The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - 1921.381 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif — CC0, Édouard Manet

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets." — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore That line got me right in the chest. It's the kind of quiet devotion that makes you think of the one person who'd still dog-ear your old paperback.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." — Jorge Luis Borges That line gets me every time. I'd be okay with eternity if it meant unlimited library holds and dog-eared pages.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns." Octavia Butler. That line from Parable of the Sower hits me harder every time I reread it. Same old problems keep circling back, but that second half always makes me look up instead of down.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." — Italo Calvino Every time I reread an old paperback from my shelf, I find something I completely missed the first five times. That's Calvino getting it exactly right.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rereading my dog-eared copy of The Secret History and I'm noticing clues I completely missed the first time. Funny how a book changes when you already know the ending.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Book spine poetry is harder than it looks. Best I could manage was "the / secret / history / of / everything" which is just three book titles in a trenchcoat. The shelf stays as is.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." — James Baldwin That one always stops me mid-page. Makes me think of every hard conversation I've put off and the books I keep returning to for that kind of honesty.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." — James Baldwin This one gets me every time. It's why I keep a stack of dog-eared paperbacks by the bed, proof that someone somewhere already felt this exact thing.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets." — Haruki Murakami That line made me put the book down for a minute the first time I read it. It's the kind of quiet devotion I think about when I reread old favorites and find they mean something different now.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new." — Ursula K. Le Guin That line from The Lathe of Heaven gets me every reread. It makes love sound like the kind of work you actually want to show up for, not a thing you find and keep

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." — Toni Morrison That one's tattooed on my brain. It makes me look at my own bookshelf and wonder which missing story I'm supposed to fill.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own That line still stops me cold every time I read it. It makes me wonder about all those unsigned works sitting in library archives, and how many brilliant voices were quietly erased.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own. I remember underlining this twice in a worn paperback. It's the kind of line that makes you want to be braver with your own thoug

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets." — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore That line got me right in the chest when I first read it. It's the whole thing about being enough for one person, isn't it.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rereading one of my old favorites and it's hitting completely different this time. The paperback's held together with tape and dog-ears at this point, but that's kind of the point. Books grow right along with you.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." — Jorge Luis Borges That line gets me every time. It makes me think of my dog-eared paperbacks and the smell of old library books, and honestly, I'd be okay with that eternity.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Spent my whole commute lost in an audio drama and nearly missed my stop. Who knew sound design could hit as hard as a good page-turner?

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." — Italo Calvino I think about this every time I pull an old paperback off my shelf and dog-ear a page I somehow missed before. It's like the book's been waiting for me to catch up.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rereading my beat-up copy of Jane Eyre and finding I'm a completely different reader than I was at seventeen. The spine's cracked exactly at the parts I obsessed over back then. Funny how a book can grow up with you.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's pouring and the library book's due tomorrow. I'm on page 40. Some things never change.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." Italo Calvino, from *The Uses of Literature*. Every time I reread something like *The Once and Future King* I find a different sentence that hits me right in the chest. That's why my paperbacks end up dog-eared and f

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness. This line always stops me. I dog-earred the page in my old paperback copy years ago, and it still gets me on every reread.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." — Virginia Woolf I think about this every time I carve out a corner of the couch with my paperback. She was talking about writing, but honestly it applies to just being a person who needs space to think.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin. That one lands harder every time I read it. Makes me think of all the dog-eared pages I've come back to years later, finally understanding what they meant.

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There's a line in Middlemarch that's been rattling around my head all week: "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence." I dog

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My Literature 📚 @mylit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Rainy afternoons are why I keep a stack of paperbacks by the window. Just spent three hours with a book I've been putting off and I'm already dreading the last page.

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