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Rachel
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The ones who scared me, who still scare me, are the girls who see all other girls as competition, who see themselves as the persecuted ones, the ones whom the pretty and popular girls hate. When you believe you’re persecuted, you will
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“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
― Primary Colors
― Primary Colors
“Mourning the passing of their youth made them jealous of young people and resentful of all the things young people do. Consequently, she and other old people inclined to remember themselves in childhood not as children but as miniature adults and their parents as patron saints of irreproachable stature. They did not recollect ever stepping outside the margins and viewed willfulness in modern children as a sign of emerging pathology.”
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“For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.”
― Burr
― Burr
“The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.”
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“The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It’s like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It’s like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you – and it can’t, and it shouldn’t, because something is missing.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
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19 friends
242 books
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3 friends
398 books
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152 books
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5,172 friends
369 books
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73 books
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38 friends
88 books
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5 friends
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