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“There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.”
― O Pioneers!
― O Pioneers!
“I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered-- about her teeth, for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things that she had lost, but whose inner glow has faded. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.”
― O Pioneers!
― O Pioneers!
“I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister--anything a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
Oona’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Oona’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
992 books
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165 friends
1,243 books
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142 friends
252 books
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104 friends
62 books
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78 friends
557 books
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55 friends
180 books
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17 friends
0 books
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63 friends
12 books
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12 friends
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Favorite Genres
Children's, Christian, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Memoir, Poetry, Religion, and Spirituality
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