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“While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“When I was younger I used to think that if I could hug myself tight enough I could make myself smaller, because there was never enough room for me, at home or anywhere, but if I was smaller then I would fit in.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“The small details of life often hide a great significance.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
Jody’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jody’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
579 books
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66 friends
219 books
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42 friends
2,409 books
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58 friends
29 books
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26 friends
2,530 books
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104 friends
405 books
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9 friends
1,143 books
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53 friends
3 books
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5 friends
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