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“your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.”
― Diary
― Diary
“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
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“because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
Jaya’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jaya’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
81 books
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60 friends
1,222 books
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60 friends
107 books
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12 friends
273 books
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4 friends
884 books
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84 friends
13 books
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13 friends
230 books
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28 friends
8 books
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60 friends
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