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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,
“I felt a surge of anger and for a moment I thought I would not tell him what I knew. But then I thought that it was unkind to punish him for something he cannot help. It is not his fault that he does not see things the way I do.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“He looked like a man made of graphite, like one of his own black-and-white drawings.”
― 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
“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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