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Shreya
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chronic illness—mental or physical—is to a large extent a function or feature of the way things are and not a glitch; a consequence of how we live, not a mysterious aberration.
“...somewhere in his murkiest depths, he wasn't so much afraid of being left again as condemning someone else to second best.”
― Bridge of Clay
― Bridge of Clay
“That’s my depression talking. It’s not “me.” 89. As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen. I applied for jobs and turned up for seminars. Things went on.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Though I knew that I would eventually have to enter full-time employment, I certainly never fantasized about a radiant future where I was paid to perform an economic role. Sometimes this felt like a failure to take an interest in my own life, which depressed me.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“I looked at dozens of apartments and when I entered the hallway of the one I moved into next I knew I could live there because it was cheap and the hallway was baby blue. My friends all told me it smelled as bad there as it did in the last one but I found a heads-up penny on the threshold”
― Bluets
― Bluets
Shreya’s 2025 Year in Books
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, Spirituality, and Thriller
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