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Rachel is Currently Reading

Rachel is currently reading

Cat Lady: Roadtrip for Beginners

by Tuuli Kanervankallio

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Sep 12, 2026 02:17PM

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The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive

by Robert Mankoff

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Sep 11, 2026 09:20AM

“There's the sound of someone breathing, that's what I'm listening to. Goodbye. The stars are setting, and in their last breath somebody tells me goodbye. Someone is saying goodbye, and now I can't move at all, and all I can do is hold my breath, and silently listen to the final sound, nothing to do but listen silently to the very last echo of that sound.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Ms Ice Sandwich

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“As far as I could tell, he earned his hundred thousand a year by wandering the hallway with a Styrofoam cup of coffee, smiling at the pretty girls and scowling at the boys who didn't play sports. Somebody should have stuck a broom in his hand and made him an honest man.”
― Tom Perrotta, Election

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“I think about that little pill for a long time. I think about how all I have to do is swallow it and I'll suddenly be a happy carefree person, someone who doesn't see the sadness. I shed a little tear for the sadness. Someone needs to see it, I think, why not me?”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

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“All the tiny sadnesses will build up until they make you into whatever monster you are that keeps you up at night.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

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“Which is the real Grandma? The Grandma who used to pick me up from nursery school? The Grandma who made me her special veggie meatballs? Breakfast-time Grandma when she dipped her bread in coffee before eating it? Gentle Grandma who, whenever Mum scolded me and pushed me away would sit next to me and let me talk? When Grandma goes away from this earth, where will she go? It's not happened yet, but I'm thinking about it now because I know that one day it's definitely, for sure, going to happen, And when I think about it, the air inside my chest gets heavier and heavier and it feels as if there's no escape.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Ms Ice Sandwich

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