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“Even small actions have consequences. And while we can often choose our actions, we rarely get to choose our consequences.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.”
― Peace Like a River
― Peace Like a River
“Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations. And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“But, I suspect, in all lives there are certain emotional scenes, those in which our passions have been most wildly and terribly roused, that are of all others the most vaguely and dimly remembered.”
― Carmilla
― Carmilla
“I’m not one of those people who care if you use words wrong. I prefer it when words change meaning. The imprecision of our language is a feature; it best represents the superlative fact of human existence: that our own emotions—even our souls—are themselves imprecise. Our words, like our hearts, are weapons still hot from the forging, beating themselves into new shapes each time we swing them.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
Ashley’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ashley’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
529 books
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40 friends
174 books
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4 friends
2,452 books
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5,000 friends
2,153 books
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54 friends
199 books
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6 friends
15 books
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0 books
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2 friends
152 books
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9 friends
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