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I had concluded that I no longer shared her faith in a God who controlled the universe like a puppet master pulling and tugging strings and making us all dance. Our lives, I believed, were more like billiard balls on a pool table,
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“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
“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
“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
Cat’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cat’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
390 books
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11 friends
514 books
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464 books
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279 books
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361 books
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78 books
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24 books
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2 friends
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