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Having been exposed to family violence as a child often makes it difficult to establish stable, trusting relationships as an adult.
“you’re still not sure where to look when smiling.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“In childhood, having a sister, especially if she was older, meant sharing a wall with—it’s possible—some likeness of your near-future self. Movies, books, the March sisters, all of it, devised a rubric that engrossed me because sisterhood amounted to what I envied: not having to learn how to join.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“He tells her that she’s beautiful. She has never heard that before, though she has sometimes privately suspected it of herself, but it feels different to hear it from another person.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“How many versions of happiness involve a smile? Are determined by feeling fulfilled?”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“It’s as though I miscarried all that glee we are entitled to in childhood.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
mg’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at mg’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
124 books
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93 books
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166 books
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7 friends
127 books
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25 friends
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Book Club, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Romance
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