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Maggie Hand
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“I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
― Joyland
― Joyland
“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tup and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank into sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
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Maggie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Maggie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,512 books
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361 friends
88 books
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3 friends
227 books
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741 books
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, Horror, Mystery, Non-fiction, and Romance
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