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“Life is often a game of two halves: in the first half it lulls you, makes you think you’re in control; in the second, when it sees you’re relaxed and helpless, it comes around again and grinds you to a pulp.”
― Vernon Subutex 1
― Vernon Subutex 1
“A veces deseo ser como mamá, que nunca tiene esa sensación de perderse algo, sensación que yo tengo tan a menudo y de forma tan dolorosa.”
― You Are Not Like Other Mothers
― You Are Not Like Other Mothers
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.”
― Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
― Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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Cris’s 2025 Year in Books
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