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“Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apart, until one day it dawns on you that this is normal life now...”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“Perhaps that was what made it hard to accept. He had always assumed happiness was for other people, for the plodders, the norms, the sleepwalkers, as the reward for their blinkered conformism”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“Today, in the developed world, the great threat to political order is that people will pay attention to their surroundings. Thus, even slaves have access to entertainment.”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“But sometimes it’s better with things you enjoy not to do them again.”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“This must be what it feels like to be dying, he thinks; the world remains around you, like a lover who does not want to hurt you by leaving, but in spirit it’s already gone, taking with it the meaning of everything you shared. In truth it is already transforming into a future you will never be part of; and you realize only then that it has been transforming all of this time, throughout your whole life, and you with it; and that, in fact, is life, though you never knew, and now it is over.”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
Zain’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Zain’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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3,599 friends
420 books
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49 friends
204 books
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33 friends
988 books
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21,261 friends
393 books
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8 friends
496 books
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18 friends
89 books
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8 friends
649 books
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610 friends
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