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He pushed the box across the table. ‘That’s what happens when you’re rich. Ironic, you get given stuff when you already have stuff. Lots of stuff. Nobody gives poor people stuff.’
“The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same.
The foam that floats in the pools
Now gathering, now vanishing
Never lasts long. So it is with man
and all his dwelling places on this earth.”
― Notebook of a Ten-Square Rush Mat Sized World
The foam that floats in the pools
Now gathering, now vanishing
Never lasts long. So it is with man
and all his dwelling places on this earth.”
― Notebook of a Ten-Square Rush Mat Sized World
“work. Revisiting a source of trauma outside a therapeutic setting is not cathartic—it just inflicts a new wound. But”
― Blade
― Blade
“No one else remembers my childhood, and if and when anything happens to me, no one will be able to share my mother’s stories. ‘Drink?’ Gio says, coming to stand beside me.”
― A Winter in New York
― A Winter in New York
“If only the world knew that certain things were not meant to be measured by metrics like efficiency and profitability.”
― The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
― The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
“All books are good," he said.
"That's not true," I said. "I've read some really bad books." I was thinking specifically of Anne of Green Gables, which we'd been forced to read the term before and which was the most stupid, annoying book I'd ever encountered.
"They weren't bad books," Phin countered patiently. "They were books that you didn't enjoy. It's not the same thing at all. The only bad books are the books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a 'good book' for someone.”
― The Family Upstairs
"That's not true," I said. "I've read some really bad books." I was thinking specifically of Anne of Green Gables, which we'd been forced to read the term before and which was the most stupid, annoying book I'd ever encountered.
"They weren't bad books," Phin countered patiently. "They were books that you didn't enjoy. It's not the same thing at all. The only bad books are the books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a 'good book' for someone.”
― The Family Upstairs
Lis’s 2025 Year in Books
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553 books
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241 books
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527 books
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