Catarina Sernadas
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“This is how I lived back then– through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality. I carried them with me wherever I went, like a talisman in my pocket, thinking of them as almost more real than the people around me, who spoke and lived in denial, destined, I thought, to never do anything worth recounting.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“You're Central Park at midnight.”
― Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing
― Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing
“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“To the stars who listen and the dreams that are answered”
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“I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
Catarina’s 2025 Year in Books
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Classics, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, Mystery, Non-fiction, Romance, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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