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“Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
“Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.”
― The World to Come
― The World to Come
“What better place to kill time than a library?”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“His dreams contained no stories at all, but only the hard stones of thoughts: the unimaginably unlikely coincidence of being alive at the same time as the love of your life, the frequency with which a person was expected to bear the body and the burden of someone else, the idiocy of thinking that kindness can protect the person who is kind, and worst of all, the bottomless pit of truth that he had suddenly, sickeningly seen: that the world to come was not an afterlife at all, but simply this world, to come- the future world, your own future, that you were creating for yourself with every choice you made in it.”
― The World to Come
― The World to Come
Nicole’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nicole’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
791 books
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37 friends
979 books
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80 friends
433 books
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24 friends
135 books
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15 friends
36 books
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70 friends
415 books
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224 friends
410 books
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82 friends
1,441 books
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202 friends
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