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“I had two important things before me; the one was the carrying on my Business and Shop; which was considerable, and in which was embark’d all my Effects in the World; and the other was the Preservation of my Life in so dismal a Calamity, as I saw apparently was coming upon the whole City; and which however great it was, my Fears perhaps as well as other Peoples, represented to be much greater than it could be.”
― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
“I am finally learning my lesson. Anyone can betray anyone.”
― Red Queen
― Red Queen
“You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Get Rich or Get Lucky
― Get Rich or Get Lucky
“marry. Fanny was having all the time what I experienced only the once with Colonel Birch in the orchard. I had my fame to comfort me, and the money it brought in, but that only went so far. I could not hate Fanny, for it were my fault she was crippled. But I could not ever feel friendly towards her nor comfortable round her. That was the case with many people in Lyme. I had come unstuck. I would never be a lady like the Philpots—no one would ever call me Miss Mary. I would be plain Mary Anning. Yet”
― Remarkable Creatures
― Remarkable Creatures
Teresa’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Teresa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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