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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
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“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.”
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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
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“I Am Vertical
But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the soil
Sucking up minerals and motherly love
So that each March I may gleam into leaf,
Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed
Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,
Unknowing I must soon unpetal.
Compared with me, a tree is immortal
And a flower-head not tall, but more startling,
And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.”
― The Collected Poems
But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the soil
Sucking up minerals and motherly love
So that each March I may gleam into leaf,
Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed
Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,
Unknowing I must soon unpetal.
Compared with me, a tree is immortal
And a flower-head not tall, but more startling,
And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.”
― The Collected Poems
Ling’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ling’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Spirituality, Travel, and War
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