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Raina Killingsworth
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“But what can be said about a man who keeps his needs and his obsessions largely to himself? When a man expresses what he’s afraid of, his fears and longings undergo revision in the telling and retelling—friends and family have their own ways of altering the material—and soon the so-called fears and longings become almost comfortable with overuse.”
― A Son of the Circus
― A Son of the Circus
“It doesn’t take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person. And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don’t turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“Very few people are tequila and champagne at the same time.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“Sometimes she thinks to their time in Canada and what all the hockey coaches there kept banging on about: they wanted “the right kind of guy” for their team. Not just someone who could play, but someone who fit into the locker room, who didn’t cause problems, who did his job. Someone who played hard and kept quiet. She wonders what it would take for a woman to be the right kind of guy.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
Raina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Raina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,289 books
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2,150 friends
8,880 books
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172 friends
1,179 books
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96 friends
622 books
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63 friends
654 books
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63 friends
184 books
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26 friends
250 books
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98 friends
961 books
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131 friends
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