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“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
“Now it was time to seek. Now it was time to be brave. Now he must go alone. So he would stand here for another moment, the bag leaden in his hand, and then he would take a breath, and then he would make his first step: his first step to a new life; his first step—to paradise.”
― To Paradise
― To Paradise
“The thing we know is that humanity has a hundred per cent mortality rate. We all die. But the facts don’t matter – we can’t bear to lose the people we love, and it doesn’t quite register about the billions who die, or even about our own coming deaths. We don’t experience our own death the way we experience the deaths of those we love.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“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
“I know that loneliness cannot be fully eradicated by the presence of another; but I also know that a companion is a shield, and without another person, loneliness steals in, a phantom seeping through the windows and down your throat, filling you with a sorrow nothing can answer. I cannot promise that my granddaughter won't be lonely, but I have prevented her from being alone. I have made certain that her life will have a witness.”
― To Paradise
― To Paradise
Frances’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Frances’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,738 books
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13 friends
333 books
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30 friends
1,238 books
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84 friends
83 books
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16 friends
107 books
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47 friends
65 books
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3 friends
382 books
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21 friends
44 books
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6 friends
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