“the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“She'd given love a chance; now she wanted simply to fill the empty spaces. Ease the loneliness while walling off her heart.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“Certain things in life will cut you open like a knife. When that happens—at that exposing moment—the world gets a glimpse of what’s truly inside you. So what will be revealed when you’re sliced open by tension and pressure? Iron? Or air? Or bullshit?”
― The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
― The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
Kim’s 2024 Year in Books
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