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Josie
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“Yet the most remarkable thing about losing a parent is that you don’t even need to miss them for their loss to be felt. The basic function of a parent is just to exist. You have to be there, like ballast in a boat, because otherwise your child capsizes.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Maybe it was something I haven’t thought about yet because like my mum said, I don’t know anything. All I know is I don’t know anything at all.”
― The Lamplighters
― The Lamplighters
“Stories about boys like him only end with us no longer dreaming of time machines, because if one was ever invented in the distant future, it would already have been used to travel back here by someone who loved him”
― The Winners
― The Winners
“The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“That’s all of life. All we can hope for. You mustn’t think about the fact that it might end, because then you live like a coward, you never love too much or sing too loudly. You have to take it for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person’s breath against your neck. That’s the only courageous thing a person can do.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
Josie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Josie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
308 books
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242 friends
1,467 books
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7 friends
123 books
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2 friends
636 books
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92 friends
131 books
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8 friends
256 books
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6 friends
227 books
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35 friends
24 books
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1 friend
Favorite Genres
Art, Crime, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Historical fiction, Mystery, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, and Thriller
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