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There is a grief worse than death. It is the grief of a life half-lived. Not because you don’t know what could have been—but because you do. You realize too late that it was there for the taking—right there in your hands—and you let it slip
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“What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.”
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“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
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Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jessica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,262 books
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71 friends
19,965 books
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23 friends
1,034 books
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148 friends
2,083 books
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326 friends
2,607 books
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194 friends
211 books
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115 friends
547 books
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75 friends
749 books
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147 friends
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