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The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be.
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
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“I’ll not abandon myself. Not ever again. Me and myself: We are till death do us part. We’ll forsake all others to remain whole. I unbecame a woman who believed that another would complete me when I decided that I was born complete.”
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living
“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything”
― Room
― Room
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
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“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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Jess’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jess’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
774 books
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25 friends
1,904 books
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339 friends
49 books
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16 friends
2,232 books
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5,110 friends
269 books
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38 friends
1,297 books
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78 friends
702 books
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62 friends
587 books
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58 friends
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