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Person who begins only now to breathe, a first filling-up of the lungs. Person who does not know who they are, where they are, what has just begun. The most helpless of all young animals, more defenceless even than a newborn chick.
“we, who have always thought of joy as rising . . . feel the emotion that almost amazes us when a happy thing falls.”
― The Hungry Tide
― The Hungry Tide
“The absence of food doesn't make a man forsake hunger-it only makes him hungrier .”
― River of Smoke
― River of Smoke
“I suppose everyone finds the despotisms of other peoples hard to comprehend.”
― Flood of Fire
― Flood of Fire
“There was no place more solitary than a dark room, with its murky light and fetid closeness.”
― The Glass Palace
― The Glass Palace
“How was it that no one had ever told her that it was not love itself, but its treacherous gatekeepers which made the greatest demands on your courage: the panic of acknowledging it; the terror of declaring it; the fear of being rebuffed? Why had no one told her that love's twin was not hate but cowardice?”
― Sea of Poppies
― Sea of Poppies
Sohini’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sohini’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
108 books
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326 friends
430 books
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254 friends
287 books
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205 friends
205 books
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232 friends
513 books
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371 friends
656 books
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278 friends
1,762 books
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258 friends
171 books
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116 friends
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