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I don’t think you can really get out of anorexia (or any addiction, for that matter) until you simply have no other choice, until the sense that your back’s against the wall grows too strong and too irrefutable, until you are simply in too
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“Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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Olivia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Olivia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
100 books
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4 friends
965 books
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33 friends
283 books
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58 friends
13 books
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3 friends
Favorite Genres
Biography, Classics, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Suspense, and catholic
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