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“When I was a child, whenever my mother would tell me she loved me, I’d say, ‘I love you, too, Mother.’ One day, she told me, ‘Sylvie, you don’t always have to say that back. It’s nice if you love me. But loving me is not your
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“Men who didn’t hire themselves out for picking got thrown in jail for vagrancy and sent into the woods or fields by the sheriff.”
― The Reformatory
― The Reformatory
“language doesn’t work to manipulate people into believing things they don’t want to believe; instead, it gives them license to believe ideas they’re already open to. Language—both literal and figurative, well-intentioned and ill-intentioned, politically correct and politically incorrect—reshapes a person’s reality only if they are in an ideological place where that reshaping is welcome.”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“I COULD HAVE BECOME a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don’t know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.”
― All Systems Red
― All Systems Red
Shani’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shani’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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102 friends
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439 books
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311 books
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122 books
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282 books
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687 books
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60 books
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