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Monika
https://www.goodreads.com/stupiddogish
It’s a shame short men don’t wear heels; it would save the world a lot of trouble.
“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It's only the ratios that change. usually on their own.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different. I think we're at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
Monika’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Philosophy, Poetry, Romance, and Travel
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