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“In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“You have given me a thing I could never have imagined, before I knew you. It's like I had the word "book," and you put one in my hands. I had the world "game," and you taught me how to play. I had the word "life," and then you came along and said, "Oh! You mean this.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
Thảo’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Thảo’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
677 books
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242 friends
822 books
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170 friends
205 books
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307 friends
156 books
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139 friends
22 books
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325 friends
36 books
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150 friends
171 books
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145 friends
443 books
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100 friends
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