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Mary is Currently Reading

Mary is currently reading

The Places in Between

by Rory Stewart

bookshelves: currently-reading, adventure-travel, afghanistan, biography-memoir, non-fiction

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Dec 18, 2025 10:59AM

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The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead

by Heather Pringle

bookshelves: currently-reading, anthropology, archaeology, non-fiction, science

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Aug 08, 2025 07:09PM

“My head’s a mess. Everywhere I go, I seem to find a way to trap myself. Most days, I can ignore it, but like anything you leave open and forgotten, it begins to rot. There are just too many thoughts, memories. I can’t look at anything and not think of something else.”
― Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

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“My present self is formed almost completely of the people around me.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

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“I, myself, had a very complicated relationship with emptiness, blankness, nothingness. Sometimes I wanted only to fill it, frightened that if I didn’t it would eat me alive or kill me. But sometimes I longed for total annihilation in it—a beautiful, silent erasure. A desire to be vanished.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

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“People can easily pass judgment on others when they’re protected by their own normality.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

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“there were two types of prejudiced people—those who had a deep-rooted urge for prejudice and those who unthinkingly repeated a barrage of slurs they’d heard somewhere.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

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