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Alex is Currently Reading

Alex McCarron is currently reading

The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels

by Edward St. Aubyn

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Alex’s Quotes

“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”
― Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love

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“...all readings are provisional, and that maybe we read heroines for what we need from them at the time.”
― Samantha Ellis, How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much

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“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

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“In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions

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“I enjoy solitude. It's probably selfish, but why bother about it. Life is much too important, as Oscar Wilde said, to be taken seriously. I feel so sorry for those mothers who are devastated by loneliness when their children fly the coop and don't want to live at home anymore. They feel lost, but look what exciting things can be done. Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!”
― Tasha Tudor, The Private World of Tasha Tudor

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