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“There are few consequences if society accepts the behavior,”
“There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant.”
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“Most beautiful place on earth, and the most brutal. Sometimes I think God wanted to show us all His ways at once.”
― The Giver of Stars
― The Giver of Stars
“Everything moves at light speed, without rest. “It’s too loud. Too colorful. The lack of aesthetics. The crudeness. The inanities. The trivia. The inappropriate choices of aspirations and goals.”
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“Alice had discovered how, for a woman at least, it was much easier to feel anger on behalf of someone you cared about, to access that cold burn, to want to make someone suffer if they had hurt someone you loved. Alice, it turned out, was no longer afraid.”
― The Giver of Stars
― The Giver of Stars
“If birth was being thrown energetically up into the air, we aged as we rose. At the height of our ascent we were middle-aged and then we fell for the rest of our lives, the whole second half. Falling might take just as long, but it was nothing like rising. The whole time you were rising you could not imagine what came next in your particular, unique journey; you could not see around the corner. Whereas falling ended the same way for everyone.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
Jean’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jean’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
154 books
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71 friends
334 books
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21 friends
265 books
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18 friends
1,061 books
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39 friends
3,501 books
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343 friends
739 books
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117 friends
105 books
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56 friends
212 books
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46 friends
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