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“I thought of my mother's belief that spaces hold memories, that walls take on meaning, that homes become a part of us, just as people do...I wondered whether the more I became a woman and the more space I occupied apart from her, the more she would deteriorate.”
― My Body
― My Body
“[…] I never in my life had any plans, none of it makes any sense, none of it adds up.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“That the pain was private made it better – I made them torture me, without their consent.”
― Acts of Desperation
― Acts of Desperation
“Love was the great consolation, would set ablaze the fields of my life in one go, leaving nothing behind. I thought of it as the great leveller, as a force which would clean me and by its presence make me worthy of it. There was no religion in my life after early childhood, and a great faith in love was what I had cultivated instead.”
― Acts of Desperation
― Acts of Desperation
“I shut my eyes tight. I felt a sudden urge to disappear. I imagined being able to breathe in so deeply that my body would dissolve into the air I’d sucked in, and then I'd no longer be in my body, in my physical self, in this car with S, or anywhere at all. "You are the problem," I thought to myself. "Something is wrong with you. And if you were taken out of the equation, everything would be just fine.”
― My Body
― My Body
Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Amanda’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
125 books
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7 friends
172 books
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14 friends
109 books
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4 friends
228 books
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5 friends
41 books
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4 friends
33 books
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9 friends
177 books
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9 friends
35 books
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7 friends
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