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Roxanne is Currently Reading

Roxanne is currently reading

Intermezzo

by Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 28, 2025 12:37PM

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Cassava Republic Press Midnight in the Morgue and Other Stories The Caine Prize for African Writing 2024.

by Karen Jennings

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Dec 15, 2025 04:02AM

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Born to Climb

by Zofia Reych

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Oct 29, 2025 01:24AM

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Roxanne’s Quotes

“We can talk and talk and talk about what the pain is like, but we can never manage to convey what it is.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

tags: pain

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“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

1297 likes

“You’re overthinking it.’ ‘I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

tags: adulthood, aging, growing-up, selfhood

387 likes

“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

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