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Laura Zhang
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I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the
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“Because we shared the loneliness that was one shape. Because I knew that in her old age she shared that same boat, where I had labored. She crested and sank in dark waves. Those waves were taking her onward, through night, through day, the water beating and slashing across her unknown path. She struggled to continue. She was traveling hard, and death was her light.”
― Love Medicine
― Love Medicine
“But her own life was as cold as an attic with a north-facing window, and boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“What you don’t realize is that we are a strange and forbidding species to wild animals. We fill them with fear. They avoid us as much as possible. It took centuries to still the fear in some pliable animals—domestication it’s called—but most cannot get over their fear, and I doubt they ever will.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“The heavy winds couldn’t blow her off course. She continued. Even when her heart clenched and her skin turned crackling cold it didn’t matter, because the pure and naked part of her went on.”
― Love Medicine
― Love Medicine
“But shouldn’t a man know everything, excel at a host of different activities, initiate you into the intensities of passion, the refinements of life, all its mysteries? Yet this man taught her nothing, knew nothing, wished for nothing. He thought she was happy; and she resented him for that settled calm, that ponderous serenity, that very happiness which she herself brought him.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
Laura’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Laura’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
266 books
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118 friends
168 books
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64 friends
92 books
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140 friends
930 books
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80 friends
69 books
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2 friends
450 books
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45 friends
1,295 books
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122 friends
1,589 books
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118 friends
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Adult Fiction, Art, Book Club, Classics, Erotica, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Spirituality, and Travel
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