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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
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“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― 100 Selected Poems
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― 100 Selected Poems
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.”
― Look Homeward, Angel
― Look Homeward, Angel
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
Marisa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Marisa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
4,640 books
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10 friends
481 books
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250 friends
444 books
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46 friends
860 books
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26 friends
96 books
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9 friends
12 books
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14 friends
212 books
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6 friends
164 books
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184 friends
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