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“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“I’d met my share of highly credentialed, high-IQ morons”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading—that is a good life.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“Though it may seem a remote possibility to us now, during the formation of the human brain the fear of being grabbed by sharp claws, dragged into a dark hole, and eaten alive was not an abstraction.”
― On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
― On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
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Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rachel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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