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“Lily and I go outside to the patio. We are surrounded by dozens, maybe a hundred, females. I'm overwhelmed. That night, I know the definition of yearning. I feel invisible. See me! Help me! I am hurting! Make me feel good. Someone who looks like you has put an ache in my heart.”
― Women
― Women
“I discovered what people are capable of, in other words, anything: sublime or deadly desires, lack of dignity, attitudes and beliefs I had found absurd in others until I myself turned to them. Without knowing it, he brought me closer to the world.”
― Simple Passion
― Simple Passion
“I propose, once again, that you are, in part, who loves you. Who might step outside of themselves to find whatever will heal you, return you to a place where you are loved.”
― There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
― There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
“The man who returned that evening wasn't the man I was carrying inside me throughout the year when he was here, and when I was writing about him. I shall never see that man again. Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable reality ever.”
― Simple Passion
― Simple Passion
“and at one point she held my hand and asked what I was thinking, and I told her that you had once been a dolphin in the Banana River, that you had saved me from drowning, that it had felt too Disney to ever say out loud but that I wanted her to know me, I wanted to tell her more, to blow it wide open, and I nearly told her my real name, but I was too startled by her face, her faint smile, the way she nodded her head. I could tell she thought I was crazy, or making shit up, and I suppose I don't blame her. I stared at the deep, dark, dolphin-free Hudson, a real river with a swift current, and thought about trying again.”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
Anna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Anna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
40 books
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9 friends
847 books
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27 friends
261 books
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27 friends
157 books
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13 friends
996 books
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21 friends
5 books
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6 friends
20 books
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14 friends
76 books
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14 friends
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