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“You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.”
― This is Where I Leave You
― This is Where I Leave You
“I'm what I need to be at any moment to stay above the ground but below the radar. The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is 'I'm full of shit.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“But I guess even the knights were vessels to someone. Isn't that the way it worked? But then everyone is always a vessel to someone. Isn't that right, Terri? But what I liked about the knights, besides their ladies, was that they had that suit of armor, you know, and they couldn't get hurt very easily. No cars in those days, you know? No drunk teenagers to tear into your ass."
Vassals," Terri said.
What?" Mel said.
Vassals," Terri said. "They were called vassals.”
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Vassals," Terri said.
What?" Mel said.
Vassals," Terri said. "They were called vassals.”
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
“You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.”
― This is Where I Leave You
― This is Where I Leave You
“Eventually, he found the bed too comfortable for his state of mind, so he lay down on his back, his legs sprawled across the carpet. He anagrammed "yrs forever" until he found one he liked: sorry fever. And then he lay there in his fever of sorry and repeated the now memorized note in his head and wanted do cry, but instead he only felt this aching behind his solar plexus. Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.
It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he'd ever gotten. And he'd gotten plenty.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he'd ever gotten. And he'd gotten plenty.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
Elyna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Elyna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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99 friends
280 books
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121 books
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70 books
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211 books
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23 books
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