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“It’s easy for people who have sacrificed nothing to rationalize their own ordinariness by calling me lucky. But I sacrificed my entire life; I sold it to the abyss. And the abyss gave me art.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“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!
“Bon Iver released a new single two days ago. I’ve been storing it up for my train journey back to London for maximum wallowing.”
― Good Material
― Good Material
“And if I start a new sub-genre of love with someone else, am I allowed to bring in all the things I loved from the last one? Or would that be weird?”
― Good Material
― Good Material
“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!
Eva’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Eva’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
82 books
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9 friends
367 books
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22 friends
84 books
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38 friends
426 books
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95 friends
718 books
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1,105 friends
315 books
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17 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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