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“I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“He was a chair, a clock, a scarf draped over the back of the settee, something the eye had registered so many times that it now glided over it, its presence so familiar that it had already been drawn and pasted into the scene before the curtain rose.”
― To Paradise
― To Paradise
“we are the lizard, but we are also the moon. Some of us will die, but others of us will keep doing what we always have, continuing on our own oblivious way, doing what our nature compels us to, silent and unknowable and unstoppable in our rhythms.”
― To Paradise
― To Paradise
“He was no one; he was nothing; he was a man who was in love with Edward Bishop and he was, for perhaps the first time in his life, doing something he wanted, something that frightened him, but something that was his own. He was choosing foolishly, perhaps, but he was choosing.”
― To Paradise
― To Paradise
“You should always have a close friend you’re slightly afraid of.” Why? “Because it means that you’ll have someone in your life who really challenges you, who forces you to become better in some way, in whatever way you’re most scared of: Their approval is what’ll hold you accountable.”
― To Paradise
― To Paradise
Frances’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Frances’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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86 friends
237 books
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1,707 books
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513 books
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404 books
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38 books
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4 books
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242 books
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30 friends
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