“Because that's the thing about change. It's so painfully normal. It's the most basic of all tragedies.”
― The Upside of Unrequited
― The Upside of Unrequited
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer! We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a good deal of Antony; but no Caesar, no Brutus, no Hamlet, no Lear, no Jaques--literature would be incredibly impoverished, as indeed literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”
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“Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
Vaamika’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Vaamika’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Romance, Thriller, and Young-adult
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