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They stamp the slush off their boots with autopilot eyes and answering-machine voices while they wait for their drug of choice – caffeine or nicotine or sugar – to kick in and render their bodies at least tolerably functional until the
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“To you who talk too much and sing too loud and cry too often and love something in life more than you should.”
― The Winners
― The Winners
“A page, turning, is a wing lifted with no twin, and therefore no flight. And yet we are moved.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“The children, the veal, they stand very still because tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers, saying with our entire curved and silenced selves, more, more, more. I want to insist that are being alive is beautiful enough to be worthy of replication. And so what? So what if all I ever made of my life was more of it?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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Hattie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Hattie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
50 books
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5 friends
88 books
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7 friends
45 books
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2 friends
7 books
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1 friend
353 books
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8 friends
17 books
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1 friend
68 books
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8 friends
142 books
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Biography, Book Club, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, Travel, and Young-adult
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