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“You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too. Stay for the person you will become. You are more than a bad day, or week, or month, or year, or even a decade. You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on. Stay.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“I wish you the blessing of oblivion, and that you will find the strength to exist moment by moment.”
― Shoko's Smile: Stories
― Shoko's Smile: Stories
“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― How to Date Men When You Hate Men
― How to Date Men When You Hate Men
“If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die. The only way to get over barriers, she said, is to live in the spirit of already being over them.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
― Sweet Bean Paste
“Your worth is you. Your worth is your presence. Your worth is right there. Your worth isn't something you earn. Your worth isn't something you buy. Your worth isn't something you gain through status on popularity or stomach crunches or having a really chic kitchen. Your worth is your existence. You were born with worth, as all babies are, and that worth doesn't disappear simply because you have grown a little older. You are a human, being.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
Shmesa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shmesa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
252 books
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14 friends
388 books
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99 friends
6 books
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3 friends
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