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“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”
― Kitchen
― Kitchen
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I exist.’ In thousands of agonies — I exist. I’m tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.”
― Kitchen
― Kitchen
“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Julia’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Julia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
261 books
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244 books
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16 friends
360 books
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75 books
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Favorite Genres
Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Romance, Thriller, and Young-adult
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