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“But plans and realities were different things. Plans were crisp, clean—the stuff of paper and drill—and realities, August had learned, were always, always, always messy.”
― Our Dark Duet
― Our Dark Duet
“But I already felt liminal and weightless, outside myself, a series of free-floating particles that only occasionally cohered into humanness, into arms and legs.”
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
“My stomach was kind of churning, but I couldn't tell why. I never understood my body - was it scared or excited?”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“People were messy. They were defined not only by what they’d done, but by what they would have done, under different circumstances, molded as much by their regrets as their actions, choices they stood by and those they wished they could undo.”
― Our Dark Duet
― Our Dark Duet
“We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entwined as they looked at a third thing. Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment. Each member of a couple is separate; the two come together in double attention.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Kelly’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kelly’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
653 books
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60 friends
1,372 books
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216 friends
1,528 books
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3,050 friends
102 books
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35 friends
313 books
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37 friends
836 books
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261 friends
63 books
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60 friends
38 books
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