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“Home became the liminal space in between-between identities, between cultures, between languages- and I was content claiming that space as my own, pleased to be different.”
― The Art of Leaving
― The Art of Leaving
“But it was a heartbreaking comparison, as when old age evokes the helplessness of infanthood.”
― The Art of Leaving
― The Art of Leaving
“Home, essentially, was the act of leaving- not a physical place, but the pattern of walking away from it.”
― The Art of Leaving
― The Art of Leaving
“Leaving, I discovered, did not cure my displacement, but rather reinforced it.”
― The Art of Leaving
― The Art of Leaving
“Not at the memory, but at the ease with which whole afternoons were forgotten. The way thousands of wounds and triumphs were whittled down to only the sharpest moment, and even those failed to remain present. I had already forgotten about the men by the river. Already forgotten what the autumn felt like. My sadness that day when I left her-it only existed in that little book, and even there, it was just a relic.”
― Sweetbitter
― Sweetbitter
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Hannah Przystup’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Hannah Przystup’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
52 books
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7 friends
73 books
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12 friends
103 books
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6 friends
15 books
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3 friends
Favorite Genres
Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Travel, and Young-adult
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