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“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?”
― Sugar Daddy
― Sugar Daddy
“What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand.
I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.”
― Handle with Care
I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.”
― Handle with Care
“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”
― The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
― The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Sandy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sandy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
861 books
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40 friends
1,364 books
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112 friends
149 books
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68 friends
69 books
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49 friends
403 books
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63 friends
635 books
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53 friends
1,504 books
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40 friends
87 books
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13 friends
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