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“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
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Crystal’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Crystal’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ebooks, Fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, and Young-adult
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