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Soft and persistent rain penetrates better than a storm.
“I had to think before I could answer. “I can stand in this wind, because I’m not trying to stand in it,” I said. “The wind is just wind. You could withstand these gusts on the ground, so you can withstand them in the air. There is no difference. Except the difference you make in your head.”
― Educated
― Educated
“It happens sometimes in families: one child who doesn’t fit, whose rhythm is off, whose meter is set to the wrong tune.”
― Educated
― Educated
“What is a person to do, I asked, when their obligations to their family conflict with other obligations—to friends, to society, to themselves?”
― Educated
― Educated
“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”
― Educated
― Educated
“It has never occurred to you,” he said, “that you might have as much right to be here as anyone.”
― Educated
― Educated
Alyssa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alyssa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,055 books
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1,540 friends
228 books
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16 friends
1,792 books
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1,449 friends
40 books
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17 friends
934 books
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2,051 friends
198 books
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39 friends
1 book
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19 friends
76 books
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57 friends
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