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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

bookshelves: currently-reading, fiction, short-stories

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Jun 10, 2026 08:14AM

“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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“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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“No one mourned me. I stopped being normal and no one ever mourned for me.”
― Allie Larkin, Swimming for Sunlight

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“Carl believes that he is better than everybody, when really, he is slightly worse than average.”
― Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

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“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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