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“When you are ten, shame stitches itself into you like a monogram, broadcasting to the world what holds you, what rules your soul. In school Roya could smell the dank must even though she’d soaped it away and changed into fresh clothes. The scent wasn’t so much on her as it was of her, compositional. It clung inside her nose like a kind of rot. She was certain everyone else could smell it.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“Feeling the absence of someone’s company and the absence of their love are two different things.”
― Good Material
― Good Material
“What if he’s one of those guys who wants to know where you are all the time? What if he runs a meme page and I don’t think it’s funny?”
― Greta & Valdin
― Greta & Valdin
“there was a word for this: sonder. “The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.” Incredible, how naming something took nothing away from its stagger. Language could be totally impotent like that.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“The performance of certainty seemed to be at the root of so much grief. Everyone in America seemed to be afraid and hurting and angry, starving for a fight they could win. And more than that even, they seemed certain their natural state was to be happy, contented, and rich. The genesis of everyone’s pain had to be external, such was their certainty. And so legislators legislated, building border walls, barring citizens of there from entering here. “The pain we feel comes from them, not ourselves,” said the banners, and people cheered, certain of all the certainty. But the next day they’d wake up and find that what had hurt in them still hurt.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
Eva’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Eva’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
84 books
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38 friends
718 books
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1,105 friends
367 books
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21 friends
315 books
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17 friends
426 books
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95 friends
82 books
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9 friends
82 books
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15 friends
167 books
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16 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Crime, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Music, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, and Thriller
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