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“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home--they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“At my most precarious, I balanced on a book, and the books rafted me over the tides of feelings that left me soaked and shattered.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.”
― Murder in the Cathedral
― Murder in the Cathedral
“I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer? ”
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“If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life... There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Meg’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Meg’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,216 books
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62 friends
622 books
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2,919 friends
4,960 books
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3,252 friends
762 books
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929 friends
2,525 books
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7,762 friends
287 books
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1,607 friends
339 books
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26 friends
949 books
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4,687 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Fantasy, Historical fiction, History, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, and Young-adult
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