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“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
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“You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
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“You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
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“The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.”
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“fit in here, in my palm, in my shadow, don’t be bigger than my idea of you, don’t be more beautiful than i can accept, don’t be more human than i am willing to allow you to be and be quiet, you’re too loud, even your un-belonging is loud. quiet your dreams, your voice, your hair, quiet your skin, quiet your displacement, quiet your longing, your colour, quiet your walk, your eyes. who said you could look at me like that? who said you could exist without permission? why are you even here? why aren’t you shrinking? i think of you often. you vibrate. you walk into a room and the temperature changes. i lean in and almost recognise you as human. but, no. we can’t have that.”
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Carissa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carissa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
255 books
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5 friends
538 books
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463 friends
0 books
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2 friends
122 books
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51 friends
172 books
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3 friends
4,995 books
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89 friends
81 books
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2 friends
329 books
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5 friends
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