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“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“It can be really exasperating to look back at your past. What’s the matter with you? I want to ask her, my younger self, shaking her shoulder. If I did that, she would probably cry. Maybe I would cry, too.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“It’s so rare in the world to meet somebody you connect to. Most people are so awful. In the big picture, bad breath just seems relatively manageable.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Solitude was like a drug that she wasn’t sure she wanted to do without.”
― The Perfect Nanny
― The Perfect Nanny
“It’s only temporary: you either die, or get better. —Something we used to say about life in general, feeling sophisticated and amusing in bars, back in the days when we thought how you behaved was the fault of other people.”
― Black Swans: Stories
― Black Swans: Stories
Brendan’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Brendan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,133 books
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216 friends
207 books
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11 friends
1,894 books
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30 friends
706 books
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77 friends
531 books
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10 friends
574 books
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18 friends
196 books
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21 friends
946 books
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97 friends
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