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“All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― 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
“To ask 'What's good?' was to move, right away, to joy. It was pushing aside what was inevitable to reach the exceptional. Not great or well or wonderful, but simply good. Because good was more often enough, was a precious spark we sought and harvested of and for one another.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“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
“It's in these moments, next to you, that I envy words for doing what we can never do-- how they can tell all of themselves simply by standing still, simply by being. Imagine I could lie down beside you and my whole body, every cell, radiates a clear, singular meaning, not so much a writer as a word pressed down beside you.”
― 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
67 books
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8 friends
142 books
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4 friends
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Book Club, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, Travel, and Young-adult
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