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Hannah Mayes
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In itself, the disappointment is no victory at all; it is a foregone conclusion any time two creatures say vows and shack up. But the way they respond to this disappointment is like the setting of a bone after a fracture.
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
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“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Hannah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Hannah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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37 friends
517 books
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39 friends
179 books
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342 books
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240 books
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278 books
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92 books
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52 books
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Children's, Christian, Classics, Crime, Fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Self help, Thriller, and Young-adult
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