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Janice Brabaw
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“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.”
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“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
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“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
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“Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn’t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: ‘get in a taxi now’ or ‘I need to see you, we need to talk’. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel – independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.”
― One Day
― One Day
Janice’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Janice’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
4,740 books
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729 friends
216 books
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428 friends
441 books
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1,348 friends
561 books
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322 friends
1,066 books
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168 friends
1,147 books
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685 friends
671 books
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1,814 friends
3,748 books
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3,474 friends
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