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They don’t have to be metaphors for wickedness and depravity or icons of conformity and docility.11 They can be what they are. We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a
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“Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Food was how my mother expressed her love. No matter how critical or cruel she could seem—constantly pushing me to meet her intractable expectations—I could always feel her affection radiating from the lunches she packed and the meals she prepared for me just the way I liked them.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“They left large areas of the paper blank because they felt empty space was as important as form, that absence was as important as presence.”
― Ghost Forest
― Ghost Forest
“You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance—to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse? As a free form of expression, I will never understand it. I can only say that some of my saddest sounds have been heard in such places. A song inside a cage is never a song. It is a plea.”
― The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
― The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
Jane’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jane’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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11 friends
130 books
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4 friends
199 books
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7 friends
123 books
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9 friends
276 books
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33 friends
37 books
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1 friend
386 books
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42 friends
230 books
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787 friends
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