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Rachel is Currently Reading

Rachel is currently reading

The Big New Yorker Book of Cats

by The New Yorker

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Jun 16, 2026 11:45AM

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Games and Rituals

by Katherine Heiny

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Rachel’s Quotes

“But my struggle is to remain conscious, to remember the gifts of so many out there, treading, drowning.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

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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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“It breaks my heart how excited dogs are at the mere idea of being taken for a walk.”
― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

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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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“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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