Memorable Quotes From my Top Reads in 2020

Violet Daniels
A Thousand Lives
Published in
8 min readNov 30, 2020

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Remembering words of wisdom from some of my favourite reads this year

This year has been rubbish — I think we can all agree on that.

But it has been a blessing in many ways, at least for me. I’ve been fortunate enough to have a lot of free time due to the pandemic, and as a result, I was able to fall back in love with reading. I’ve read over 50 books, which is a lot for me, considering I was averaging between 10–15 during my time at university.

During this process, I’ve also started to hoard quotes, so I thought I would share with you some of my favourites from books I’ve read this year.

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Why and How Do I Keep Quotes from my favourite reads?

You may be thinking, sure, you read some good books, but why are you hoarding quotes from them?

I spent many years whizzing through books to read as much as possible once I realised my reading time was limited, and as a result, used to forget a lot of what I had read. I didn’t reflect on anything or think about…

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Violet Daniels
A Thousand Lives

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