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“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― Babel
― Babel
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― Babel
― Babel
“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
Ash’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ash’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
372 books
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4 friends
84 books
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1 friend
939 books
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9 friends
88 books
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2 friends
3,426 books
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4,011 friends
761 books
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6 friends
37 books
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4 friends
174 books
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9 friends
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