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If I ever did a crime, I would come and confess it to you. You would understand me.” “People like you—the wilful sunbeams of life—don’t commit crimes,
“She had loved him, and he had needed to break her completely to leave her for good. Agnes Bain was too rare a thing to let someone else love. It wouldn't do to leave pieces of her for another man to collect and repair later.”
― Shuggie Bain
― Shuggie Bain
“It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we say every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed for ever—that the brightness of a beloved eye can be extinguished, and the sound of a voice heard.”
― Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
― Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
“It was hard to feel the remotest sympathy for any of the different fools she'd been. As opposed to the fool she was being now. People hang on to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now.”
― The Bean Trees
― The Bean Trees
“It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.”
― The Bean Trees
― The Bean Trees
“This experience led me to form a hypothesis: perhaps the wisdom of birds resides, not in the individual, but in the flock, the congregation.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
Cat’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cat’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
522 books
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12 friends
170 books
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20 friends
270 books
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16 friends
306 books
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8 friends
452 books
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19 friends
31 books
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2 friends
23 books
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2 friends
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