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“People lament that if their loved ones had been born fifty years later, they might have survived what killed them. But perhaps what killed them is what led someone to find a cure.
“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
Becky’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Becky’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
326 books
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44 friends
2,217 books
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132 friends
939 books
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59 friends
241 books
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30 friends
887 books
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76 friends
278 books
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86 friends
164 books
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54 friends
84 books
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52 friends
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