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As if I could simply do that. As if I chose this. As if I looked at the options available to me and they were clearly labeled “Perseverance” and “Freaking the Fuck Out All the Time” and calmly said, “Mmm, yes, I select option B.”
“Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage, and sternness.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Some of us never manage to get the chaos under control, so our lives simply carry on, the world spinning through space at two million miles an hour while we bounce about on its surface like so many lost socks.”
― Folk med ångest
― Folk med ångest
“Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
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Cara ’s 2025 Year in Books
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