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Nobody to hold up a mirror to make me see whom I had become, or to see the person I’d been who had never really believed she could be anything more than ordinary. My mother had once told me that she didn’t know that particular sorrow, the
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“People’s recollections are tinted with their own biases. Their beliefs, layered over the top, sometimes rendering a completely different meaning.”
― The Ghostwriter
― The Ghostwriter
“If love was something we had to deserve, we would all be loveless. No, love is what the world owes us.”
― Meet Me in Another Life
― Meet Me in Another Life
“grief was something that moved in and stayed. Maybe it moved from one side of the room to the other, farther away from the window, but it was always there. A part of you that you couldn’t wish or pray or drink or exercise away. She was used to him being so close to gone that gone was almost desirable—no one wanted to watch someone they loved suffer.”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
“is so much easier to sit in things and wait for something to save us.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“there was one thing she’d learned in all of this, it was that life—and love—can be gone any second. When you had it, you needed to hang on with all your strength and savor every second.”
― Winter Garden
― Winter Garden
Renata’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Renata’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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65 friends
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797 books
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837 books
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1,190 books
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446 books
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3,420 books
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1,222 books
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107 friends
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