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“So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“When we encounter a person of exceptional intellectual and creative vitality, their magnetism can disorient the compass needle of admiration and attraction—it becomes difficult, sometimes impossible, to tease apart the desire to be with from the desire to be like.”
― Figuring
― Figuring
“I learned you haven't read anything if you've only read something once or twice. Reading things more than twice was the reader version of revision.”
― Heavy
― Heavy
“History is not what happened, but what survives the shipwrecks of judgment and chance.”
― Figuring
― Figuring
“We had fallen in love; that was still true. But given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone or anything. A wooden desk—always on all fours, always prone, always there for you. What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part—there was no one to blame and no way to reverse it.”
― The First Bad Man
― The First Bad Man
janelle’s 2025 Year in Books
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