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“To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.”
― The Glass Palace
― The Glass Palace
“How do we examine the legacy of colonization when the basic facts of its construction are disputed in the minds of its beneficiaries?”
― Assembly
― Assembly
“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”
― The Canterville Ghost
― The Canterville Ghost
“Was this how a mutiny was sparked? In a moment of heedlessness, so that one became a stranger to the person one had been a moment before? Or was it the other way around? That this was when one recognized the stranger that one had always been to oneself; that all one’s loyalties and beliefs had been misplaced?”
― The Glass Palace
― The Glass Palace
“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
Shrawani’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shrawani’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
417 books
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218 friends
279 books
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12 friends
9 books
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217 friends
459 books
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18 friends
264 books
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4 friends
32 books
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1 friend
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