“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
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“Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
Maddy’s 2025 Year in Books
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