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“I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
Jia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,076 books
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28 friends
563 books
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34 friends
1,633 books
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2,832 friends
461 books
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167 friends
159 books
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11 friends
396 books
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40 friends
61 books
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92 friends
66 books
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50 friends
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