claire 🌷

you can write the world but the world will never be written for you 🪽

[claire 🌷 @booksreadbyc]

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” #tokillamockingbird #harperlee

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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” #1984 #ninteeneightfour #georgeorwell

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“No matter what anybody tells you, words.” #deadpoetssociety #nhkleinbaum

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“It kills me sometimes, how people die.” #thebookthief #markuszusak

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“At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone.” #thehandmaidstale #margaretatwood

[claire 🌷 @booksreadbyc]

Now let me tell you something. I WAS NOT expecting this book to be what it actually is about. I was shocked and honestly a bit taken back. It had kept me on the edge of my seat every page I turned.

[claire 🌷 @booksreadbyc]

I don’t really know what I had expected, nor did I realise that this book had been made into a TV series and a movie. It’s a book that is surprising at first before you are pulled into a deep cult like world. The beginning is the end and the end is only the beginning.

[claire 🌷 @booksreadbyc]

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.” #thesongofachilles #madelinemiller

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LINK TO MY SECOND STORY: https://t.co/Zbujma6xbD

[claire 🌷 @booksreadbyc]

“Twelve years after Robin’s death, no one knew any more about how he had ended up hanged from a tree in his own yard that they had known on the day it happened.” #thelittlefriend #donnatartt

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‼️ LINK ‼️ https://t.co/Zbujma6xbD

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Second short story, yes please!!

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“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.” #theplague #albertcamus

[claire 🌷 @booksreadbyc]

Ahhhhh, I finally got to read this amazing book. I was one away from my reading goal last year and I didn’t want to read any other book expect this one, but sadly I couldn’t get the book in time. Nevertheless, I have finally read it and I loved it!

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All together they are the meaning of suffering and death.
{also the fact that Camus’ belief was the absurd - life being void of meaning, or man's inability to know that meaning if it were to exist - was something that man should embrace}

[claire 🌷 @booksreadbyc]

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” #tokillamockingbird #harperlee

[claire 🌷 @booksreadbyc]

I remember watching this movie back in school and first off; Gregory Peck 🫣 No other comments. Reading this book actually opened up all the issues that the 1930s under went, especially in a small southern American town.

[claire 🌷 @booksreadbyc]

I was instantly hooked after the first page and I couldn’t put the book down. Reading and studying the issues that the book portrayed comes under understanding how time and conflict has changed over the years.

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“The ocean floor was sandy and soft as pillows. I settled into it and slept.” #galatea #madelinemiller

[claire 🌷 @booksreadbyc]

I swear anything Madeline Miller writes just automatically becomes my favourite. Galatea is such a raw and powerful short story that was both loving and cruel. As soon as I finished it I stared at the ground before wanting to reread it again.