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Then Pecola asked a question that had never entered my mind. “How do you do that? I mean, how do you get somebody to love you?”
“He was my echo. Everything I do is quieter now," she said to the other women in the closet.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“I like knowing that you exist. It doesn't make me feel any less lonely, because life is lonely, but it makes me feel a lot less alone.”
― Emergency Contact
― Emergency Contact
“That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Turns out grief not only morphs time, but space too. Somehow increases the distance between you and other people.”
― What to Say Next
― What to Say Next
“I’m not sure what prime numbers have to do with anything,” I say in a gentle voice.
“Prime numbers have to do with everything. But to clarify, that’s what I imagine falling in love is like and then staying married. You start out as low twin primes and as time goes on, if you manage to defy the statistical odds and not get divorced, you become like those rarer twin primes, still only separated by two. That’s an amazing feat.”
“How romantic”
― What to Say Next
“Prime numbers have to do with everything. But to clarify, that’s what I imagine falling in love is like and then staying married. You start out as low twin primes and as time goes on, if you manage to defy the statistical odds and not get divorced, you become like those rarer twin primes, still only separated by two. That’s an amazing feat.”
“How romantic”
― What to Say Next
Farah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Farah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
887 books
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197 books
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1 friend
1,505 books
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581 friends
1,022 books
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113 friends
16,554 books
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4,367 friends
2,205 books
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5,828 friends
1 book
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13 friends
1 book
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10 friends
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