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Temi
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The heroine, infatuated with romanticism, comes to grief because of it—because of her craving for impossible dreams, her refusal to accept the ordinariness of her life and its limited possibilities for happiness.
“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
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Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
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“The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
― War of the Foxes
― War of the Foxes
“I’ve always liked men who look as if they’re from another time.”
― Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
― Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
“I am supposed to be touched. I can’t wait to find the person who will come into the kitchen just to smell my neck and get behind me and hug me and breathe me in and make me turn around and make me kiss his face and put my hands in his hair even with my soapy dishwater drips. I am a lovely woman. Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?”
― Little Weirds
― Little Weirds
“The San Francisco therapist kept telling me I shouldn’t be terrified of creative experimentation.
“I don’t know what’s going to come out of me,” I told her. “It has to be perfect. It has to be irreproachable in every way.”
“Why?” she said.
“To make up for it,” I said. “To make up for the fact that it’s me.”
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“I don’t know what’s going to come out of me,” I told her. “It has to be perfect. It has to be irreproachable in every way.”
“Why?” she said.
“To make up for it,” I said. “To make up for the fact that it’s me.”
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Temi’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Temi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
120 books
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15 friends
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24 friends
1,006 books
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281 friends
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39 friends
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Favorite Genres
Chick-lit, Christian, Classics, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Romance, Self help, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
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