“Smart is only a construct of correspondence, between one’s abilities, one’s environment, and one’s moment in history.”
― Thick: And Other Essays
― Thick: And Other Essays
“In a world myriad as ours, the gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“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
“Decades before I valued myself enough to be careful for myself, I was careful so that my mother would not worry.”
― Thick: And Other Essays
― Thick: And Other Essays
Cherith’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cherith’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Chick-lit, Comics, Contemporary, Fiction, Graphic novels, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Memoir, Music, Poetry, Romance, Self help, Travel, and Young-adult
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