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Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)

by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2025, adventure, audiobook, fantasy, currently-reading

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Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

by Susana Monsó

bookshelves: 2025, grief, kindle, nonfiction, philosophical, physical, currently-reading

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Debriefing: Collected Stories

by Susan Sontag

bookshelves: 2025, literary, short-story-collection, currently-reading

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Cat Lady’s Notes & Highlights

What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer

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You are not an evergreen, unchanged by the pitiless snow. You are not a photo, a brand, a character written for sex or house or show. You do not have to choose one or the other: a dream or a dreamer, the bird or the birder. You may be a ...more

Cat Lady’s Quotes

“What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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“Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

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“I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

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