Amelia
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“He knows that a lot of the literary people in college see books primarily as a way of appearing cultured, It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about. Even the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”
― Blue Nights
― Blue Nights
“Maybe I've lost sight of me. I don't have a sense that I'm living this life as myself, as the real me. Sometimes I think I'm merely a shadow. When I feel that way, I get this restless feeling, like I'm simply tracing an outline of myself, cleverly pretending to be me.”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
“Flames are not just the end, they are also the beginning. For everything that you have destroyed can be rebuilt. From your own ashes you can grow again.”
― Shuggie Bain
― Shuggie Bain
“Shug had seen it before, those with least to give always gave the most.”
― Shuggie Bain
― Shuggie Bain
Amelia’s 2025 Year in Books
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