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“I asked him, "Can you breathe okay with my head on your chest like this?" His answer was "It's the only way I know how to breathe.”
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“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“...what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we’ve just met for a minute in the lobby of a hotel? For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
Anna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Anna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
903 books
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879 friends
875 books
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94 friends
1,432 books
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21 friends
474 books
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25 friends
19 books
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7 friends
766 books
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9 friends
130 books
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17 friends
620 books
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65 friends
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Favorite Genres
Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Poetry, Psychology, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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