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Alyssa
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More than anything people are supposed to pretend to be happy on the internet so that other people are reminded of how unhappy they themselves are by comparison.
“By this time of course reading itself was slipping into shadow. There was a sinuous mistrust of text and its defenders. The country had recently elected its first proudly illiterate president, A MAN UNSPOILT as he constantly bellowed, and this chimp was wildly popular everywhere he went.”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
“It’s taken all my life to learn protection is the promise you can’t make. It sounds absolute, and you mean it and believe it, but that vow is provisional and makeshift and no god ever lived who could keep it half the time.”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
“I am always last to see the beauty I inhabit.”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
“Her voice, it seemed, had been continuously decrescendoing since birth, so that by age twelve, she could scarcely be heard.”
― The God of the Woods
― The God of the Woods
“Panic,' said T.J. But no one raised a hand.
She explained. It came from the Greek god Pan: the god of the woods. He liked to trick people, to confuse and disorient them until they lost their bearings, and their minds.”
― The God of the Woods
She explained. It came from the Greek god Pan: the god of the woods. He liked to trick people, to confuse and disorient them until they lost their bearings, and their minds.”
― The God of the Woods
Alyssa’s 2025 Year in Books
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514 books
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23 friends
718 books
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937 books
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3,286 books
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223 books
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510 books
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397 books
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612 books
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