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“I just want you to know that I love you. Once you’re older, you’ll realize that I made an endless line of mistakes during your childhood. I know that. I’ve resigned myself to it. But I just want you to know that I did my very, very best. I left it all on the field. I gave this every ounce of everything I had. I”
― Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
― Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“Early tomorrow morning even the most serious critics, even those who have never written a kind word about the artist's paintings, will whisper "Oh no" into their phones when they hear what has happened. And Ted has to forgive them, because in grief we are reminded that we're human beings. In life we might be enemies, but when faced with death, we see the truth: we are one species, all we have is each other, and where you go, I shall follow.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Louisa is a teenager, the best kind of human. The evidence for this is very simple: little children think teenagers are the best humans, and teenagers think teenagers are the best humans, the only people who don't think teenagers are the best humans are adults. Which is obviously because adults are the worst kind of humans.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Never before had I felt trapped, seduced, and caught up in a story the way I did with that book. Until then, reading was just a duty, a sort of fine one had to pay teachers and tutors without quite knowing why. I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language... That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
Piper’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Piper’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
9,958 books
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61 friends
471 books
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23 friends
143 books
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37 friends
213 books
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86 friends
6 books
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1 friend
26 books
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2 friends
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