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Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the
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“That’s why someone who hated their own childhood often has greater empathy than someone who loved theirs. Because someone who had a hard time dreamed of other realities, but someone who had it easy can hardly imagine that things could be any different.”
― The Winners
― The Winners
“A good quit feels powerful. Deciding what you won’t have in your life is as important as deciding what you will have. Trying out something you expect to love, realizing you don’t really love it, and giving it back, that takes guts.”
― I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
― I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
“This book is dedicated to anyone who has lived a hard life in order to get by. Such people are seldom regarded as adventurers, yet I think they’re the mantle-piece characters.”
― The Backyard Adventurer
― The Backyard Adventurer
“Translators transport nations into other nations. They are the first to reckon with distant modes of feeling. Even their mistakes are evidence of a positive force. Translation is our salvation. It draws us out of the well in which, entirely by chance, we are born.”
― Incidental Inventions
― Incidental Inventions
“No one tells you before you procreate that the hardest thing about being a good parent is that you never feel like one.”
― The Winners
― The Winners
Around the World in 80 Books
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Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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Garima’s 2025 Year in Books
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