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“He's a good looking guy, no question. All bluster and confidence while I'm whatever the opposite of that is. Apologies and embarrassment. Awkwardness and sorrow. First dead in a zombie apocalypse”
― The Music of What Happens
― The Music of What Happens
“Every time I go back to Rome, I go back to that one spot. It is still alive for me, still resounds with something totally present, as though a heart stolen from a tale by Poe still throbbed under the ancient slate pavement to remind me that, here, I had finally encountered the life that was right for me but had failed to have.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“Fear not. It will come. At least I hope it does. And when you least expect it. Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“With my white friends, I’m always half Mexican. They never say I’m half Irish. Never say I’m half white. Like I’m tainted halfway from the standard. It’s like when I was a kid and I thought vanilla ice cream meant no flavor, like it was the base of all of the flavors. But vanilla is a bean. Like chocolate is a bean. Like cinnamon is a root. All roots and beans. All flavors. There is no base. No ice cream without a flavor.”
― The Music of What Happens
― The Music of What Happens
Alina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
146 books
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3,112 friends
32 books
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1 friend
199 books
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4 friends
0 books
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1 friend
8 books
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1 friend
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