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“People are rotten everywhere you go. They’re no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.”
“Everyone thinks I’m going to eventually die of a heart attack, but joke’s on y’all—it’s definitely going to be of secondhand embarrassment.”
― Wow, No Thank You.
― Wow, No Thank You.
“Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can’t be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn’t their fault and it’s not yours either. You just needed something they didn’t have in them to give you.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Loving yourself is a full-time job with shitty benefits. I'm calling in sick.”
― Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
― Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
“But a life without art, without wonder, without beautiful things—she would go mad. She has gone mad.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“They would be friends until they both finally acknowledged the truth. And they would have everything that other couples had—the arguments and the hand-holding in the market and the gradual exploration of their bodies and the birthday celebrations and the journeys to new cities and the living as one and sharing a bed and the gradual sense of melting into each other. Their names would be entwined—Roman and Iris or Winnow and Kitt because could you truly have one without the other?”
― Divine Rivals
― Divine Rivals
Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
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