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“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.”
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“That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.”
― Snow Like Ashes
― Snow Like Ashes
“Things and people moved around me, taking positions in obscure hierarchies, participating in systems I didn't know about and never would. A complex network of objects and concepts. You live through certain things before you understand them. You can't always take the analytical position.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
Mary’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Classics, Comics, Cookbooks, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Travel, Young-adult, Nonfiction, medicine, health, social-movements, social-justice, race, and anti-racist
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