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Too much self-sufficiency was sort of mean to the people who loved you, Kit thought. You robbed them of how good it feels to give, of their sense of value.
“I want to belong to someone. I want to be safe. I want to be lifted up. I want to have a spot, I want to share unspoken secrets with a look, and I want the wind to make me soar.”
― The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley
― The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley
“The easiest way to win any war was to create dissent amongst your enemy’s ranks so that they wasted their time and energy fighting each other instead of you.”
― Quicksilver
― Quicksilver
“In a lot of ways, having a teenager isn’t all that different from having a newborn. You learn to read the reactions, because they’re incapable of saying exactly what it is that’s causing pain.”
― Small Great Things
― Small Great Things
“No, Isadora,” he says. “You were trusting.” “Which is basically the same thing.” He reaches out and takes my hand. “You just trusted the wrong person.” I meet his eyes, and I want to believe him. That ever-present voice calling out at the back of my mind—He’s just like everyone else! He’s going to leave too!—is strangely silent.”
― The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley
― The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley
“He is a capable, grown man, and if he cared about anything more than himself, he would have made an effort. He knows your name, he knows what city you live in, he knows how old you are.” Josh’s eyes are starting to tear up. “It blows my mind that this man has you for a son, and you want to be in his life, yet he still hasn’t made an effort. You’re a privilege, Josh. Believe me, if I’d known you existed, I would have knocked over buildings to find you.”
― It Starts with Us
― It Starts with Us
Katie’s 2025 Year in Books
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