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The sudden rush of empathy startled her. Was that what it was like to be this girl? An unwise choice earning you sympathy, not scorn, a single moment of doubt forcing a practical stranger to affirm that you were, in fact, special?
“I could have my mother’s love, but there were terms, the same terms they had offered me three years before: that I trade my reality for theirs, that I take my own understanding and bury it, leave it to rot in the earth.”
― 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
“It has never occurred to you,” he said, “that you might have as much right to be here as anyone.”
― 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
“Of the nature of women, nothing final can be known.”
― Educated
― Educated
Alyssa’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alyssa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,038 books
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1,502 friends
224 books
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16 friends
1,792 books
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1,450 friends
932 books
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2,045 friends
40 books
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17 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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