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“An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.”
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
“What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.”
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“People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
Angeline’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Angeline’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
205 books
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45 friends
960 books
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290 friends
5,636 books
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726 friends
83 books
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14 friends
985 books
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510 friends
428 books
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5 friends
85 books
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122 friends
982 books
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36 friends
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