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Childhood / Youth / Dependency

by Tove Ditlevsen

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Jun 29, 2026 02:51PM

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The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

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Reia said: " Third time reading, that said, this is a book that my body will decay with

Previous review:

currently trying to articulate my feelings about this book but i feel that it is redundant in trying, as we have a "divinity in our midst" it made me feel thin ...more "

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(page 114 of 559)
"Always coming back to you" — Feb 04, 2026 09:19PM

Nov 02, 2023 01:50AM · see review

Reia’s Quotes

“Life is unfair, and sometimes it helps to irrationally blame someone for it.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

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“You are who you are, and you like what you like. You are you, and that's a lovely person to be.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

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“Love was an action, an instinct, a response roused by unplanned moments and small gestures, an inconvenience in someone else’s favor.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

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“In fact, she was both my first and second words: Umma, then Mom. I called to her in two languages. Even then I must have known that no one would ever love me as much as she would.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

tags: grief, love, mother

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“As soon as his voice is gone I have that feeling I often have when I’m away from my family, like they are moving farther and farther away from me, beginning to flicker faintly as distant stars and I will never ever reach them again. It feels like a premonition of the fact that someday, one by one, we will be separated from each other forever.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

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