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It’s in these moments, next to you, that I envy words for doing what we can never do—how they can tell all of themselves simply by standing still, simply by being.
I have noticed that the greatest writers talk about how strong words are and it makes me feel jealous that I can't speak my thoughts as well as I could
“The lesson seems almost Zen: you live longer only when you stop trying to live longer.”
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“No matter how much I’d cajoled or begged in the past, it was the one thing he’d refused to do. Until now.”
― Twisted Love
― Twisted Love
“I did not plan to live after he was gone.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I saw then how I had changed. I did not mind anymore that I lost when we raced and I lost when we swam out to the rocks and I lost when we tossed spears or skipped stones. For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty? It was enough to watch him win, to see the soles of his feet flashing as they kicked up sand, or the rise and fall of his shoulders as he pulled through the salt. It was enough.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“This and this and this.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
Genevieve’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Genevieve’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
126 books
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11 friends
1,155 books
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82 friends
759 books
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42 friends
1,566 books
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43 friends
834 books
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11 friends
935 books
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31 friends
585 books
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40 friends
881 books
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58 friends
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