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“Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.” Hesiod, Works and Days”
― Deadmistress
― Deadmistress
“Everything grows best in oxygen and sunlight except secrets and guilt and regrets. They like the dank spaces. Drag them out into the light and they fail to thrive.”
― Ask Him Why
― Ask Him Why
“Nearly everything is easier to get into than it is to get out of.”
― Chasing Windmills
― Chasing Windmills
“You don’t need to feel how you think you should feel, or how somebody else thinks you should feel. There’s no right or wrong way to feel.”
― Letters to Myself
― Letters to Myself
“Alicia hated confrontation, hated to disappoint or upset her family. Her role had always been the sensible one, the peacekeeper, the organiser. She had never had the teenaged rebellion that many of her friends had gone through. Alicia realized now that she had spent her whole life trying to be inconspicuous, unnoticed, unremarkable. She dressed conservatively, never showing her body or doing anything to draw attention to herself. It was not through shyness she now understood. It was an attempt to protect herself from a world that was cruel and unpredictable and where no-one could be trusted.”
― Living a Lie
― Living a Lie
Dawn’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Dawn’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
188 books
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23 friends
68 books
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5 friends
119 books
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76 friends
46 books
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6 friends
205 books
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22 friends
46 books
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18 friends
22 books
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57 friends
1 book
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65 friends
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