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“Look, if you don't make a fool of yourself over animals, at least in private, you aren't to be trusted.”
― What Moves the Dead
― What Moves the Dead
“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”
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“For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldn’t last for very long and I’d be sad again and then it would be worse because it’s one thing to be sad and it’s another thing to be sad once you’ve been happy. Being sad after you’ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.”
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster
“I lived in pain because I chose to live in pain. Somewhere along the line, I fell in love with the idea of tragedy, the idea that I was destined to live a tragic life. I had this romantic idea about the life of a writer and what he was supposed to suffer. [...:] Somehow I made my own pain a kind of god.”
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Marina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Marina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
481 books
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6 friends
3,555 books
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50 friends
298 books
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3 friends
3 books
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2 friends
0 books
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3 friends
920 books
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10 friends
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